It's hard to believe, but those old coins in your grandma's attic could actually be treasure. For collectors around the world who are passionate about the special histories and aesthetics of ...

Collectors hunting for valuable coins don't have to reach back a century or more to find them -- they can pop back a few ...

You might think the end of penny production would make the coins rare and valuable, but not so fast, warned John Haas, owner of Newark Coin and Jewelry. "Really, the only pennies we see around here ...

Others were the 2012 R2 Crown – Olympics Games, 2012 R2 Crown – centenary of the race to the South Pole, and the 2012 50c, 20c, 10c and 5c sterling silver commemorative coins. The coins would now be ...

Here is another coin valued at $126,500 (at least, in MS-64 condition) — and most of that value is due to doubling on the date and lettering on the obverse. The errors were first discovered in 1970.

Currently, in Ireland, the Euro coin series comprises of eight different denominations: €2, €1, 50c, 20c, 10c, 5c, 2c and 1c. However, in a bid to reduce the number of 2c and 1c coins in ...

That coin sold for £97 plus £3.35 postage after nine bids. The mistake happened when the Royal Mint changed its design for the 20p coins in 2008, moving the date from the back to the front.

"The mint is allowing you to purchase 10 at a time with a mintage of 20,000 of each coin," McRostie said. "They are also allowing via the mint e shop instead of doing a ballot which also tells you ...

The 50c coin included a special JFK Half Dollar, similar to a proof coin. The strange thing about this coin is that it was minted a year before the special mint sets were.

The value of these coins depends heavily on the grade and is significantly less than the Wheat Penny above. There are also more of these still in circulation today. That said, an MS-68 coin has an ...