Learn how to find rare error coins and varieties in your pocket change. This tutorial will teach you a few simple steps that will allow you to quickly sort your change, so you never put a quarter worth 100 bucks into a vending machine again!

The Presidential Dollar coins were issued for circulation by the U.S. Mint starting in February, 2007. Learn all about this series of President’s Dollar coins, find out why the word LIBERTY has been removed, and why you won’t see IN GOD WE TRUST or E PLURIBUS UNUM on the face of the coins. Also, get the details about the "Godless" dollars and how the edge lettering is supposed to appear.

Nickel values guide; Find out how much your U.S. nickels are worth in this easy to use, realistic nickel values guide. Types include Liberty Head V-Nickels, Indian Head Buffalo Nickels, and Jefferson Nickels. My coin values are actual, honest, dealer buying prices, not inflated retail, or Red Book prices.

The 1933 Gold Double Eagle coin, designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, sold for $7.5 million in 2002, the highest price in the world ever paid for a coin. Find out why the 1933 double eagle is worth so much, and learn the bizarre story of how a lady who found 10 of these coins in her deceased father’s belongings ended up having them all seized by the U.S. Mint!

To clean coins is generally not recommended, but if you really feel you have to, this article tells you how to clean coins safely and with minimal damage.

It is fairly easy to find a coin dealer. But how do you find a reputable, honest coin dealer? We invest a lot of money in our coins, so we want to get the best prices we can. However, price isn’t everything. What if your coin turns out to be fake? Will the rare coin dealer be around in five years to issue a refund? Learn how to find honest and ethical rare and gold coin dealers.

This article contains my personal list of "do not buy" coin types. I am reluctant to tell anybody else what they should invest in, since nobody can predict where the market will go, but I am willing to share my own personal 30 years’ worth of experience in what I personally do not collect…and why.

What is a key date? Your Guide has the definition to this and other coin related terms in the glossary of numismatic terminology. Key date coin is defined on this page.

State Quarters generally must be in Mint State (MS) grades to be worth anything over face value. Serious State Quarter collectors
collect them by the original bank-wrapped (OBW) rolls of 40 coins. Values for Statehood Quarter OBWs are given in a separate State Quarter Rolls
value guide. Learn what the prices are for these beautiful U.S. Quarters, and find out how much your State Quarters are worth with this simple to use Statehood Quarter price guide.

U.S. pennies were made of mostly copper until the price of copper got so high that it cost more to mint the cents than they were actually worth. Find out when the U.S. switched to the copper-clad zinc penny, and how to tell if your penny is made of copper or zinc.