Will your old pennies be more valuable now that the government has stopped making them? You shouldn't bank on it.

In the world of numismatics, copper coins hold a special allure for collectors and investors alike. Their historical ...

Correction: This story and headline have been updated to reflect that the auction house estimate of the coin's value was $170,000, not $1 million. A rare copper penny that a Massachusetts man found in ...

If you’re like most of us, you don’t assume your coins will be worth a lot of money. At least, not more than 25 cents. But because coins have been minted in this nation for a long time, and because ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Don Lutes Jr. kept the 1943 copper penny he ...

During World War II, the U.S. Mint switched to zinc-coated steel pennies to conserve copper for military use. However, a small number of 1943 pennies were mistakenly struck in copper, making them ...

Laguna Beach resident Steve Contursi sold a rare coin for more than $100,000 to a happy collector on the East Coast. Contursi had bought the coin about a week earlier. Due to a confidentiality request ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A rare 1943 copper penny is expected to be ...