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Ancient coins that is. Try looking under that old dresser, or up the attic where grandma or grandpa’s things may be stashed away patiently waiting for you to learn them. Who knows, you force find a coin there, an old coin that – at now’s rate – may be value a few dollars; probably three or four or five, even ten times what the coin was value back then.

A penny a day, is value okay

Fortunately or sorry to say, there was a shortage of copper during the year 1943 and all pennies made at that time were minted using steel. There were but, some Lincoln pennies that were incorrectly minted on bronze that turned out to be blanks. A few years – or decades later -these bronze pennies became a rarity and are valuable. The steel ones though, because of their commonality, are value only between one to three dollars each.

Be aware and be wary as there are schemes where gullible coin collectors are sold coins that are copper plated in an attempt to make these pennies appear to be bronze. Also, keep your guard up anytime someone offers you a circa 1943 penny made out of a metallic white alloy.

Ancient coins are excellent coins

Coins, specifically the silver dollars made and circulated between the years 1878 and 1935, are value between twelve dollars and twenty five dollars for the circulated coins. The coins that were not in circulation are value considerably more.

Meantime, those quarters, dimes, or half dollar coins made and circulated prior to 1965, are usually made out of ninety percent silver and therefore value as much as now’s silver (with an additional premium, albeit small, place on the coin’s face value).

Incorrect pennies are right

There is a Lincoln penny issued in 1972 on which the date and the letters on it appear to have been doubled. This rare coin is currently value about sixty dollars, high and mighty the pennies are in standard shape up. The Philadelphia Mint during that time period accidentally misaligned the die used in minting the coins causing the portrait of Lincoln to look like it was doubled. Fortunately or sorry to say, eighty thousand of these were circulated before the error was learned.

In synopsis, coin collecting is similar to collecting bits of history and trivia from the past. In addition to the face value its value as a treasure – pennies, dimes and coins – often are value more in the long run.