Articles Tagged:

Bicentennial Coins

Tips for building a 20th century type coin set is a collection of coins which includes one of each design from each denomination the United States produced between 1900 and 1999. It's a fun -- and relatively simple -- way to collect U.S. coins.

Looking to lessen your coin collecting budget? Try your hand at completing these 7 coin sets for less than $10 each.

There are many interesting coins that are available for under $5. If you're collecting coins and you don't have a lot of money to spend, then you might want to start with these cheap coins.

Hundreds of millions of Bicentennial coins were struck during 1975 and 1976 -- both in the regular copper-nickel clads for circulation and in a 40% silver clad composition for collectors. The silver Bicentennial coins were sold in mint sets and proof sets. These mint sets and proof sets were first sold in 1975 and remained mint offerings into the mid-1980s. The U.S. Mint wound up melting millions of unsold silver Bicentennial coins.

I like to buy rolls of coins (at face value) to see how many valuable coins I can find. A list of coins you should be looking for in rolls by denomination.

Find out if your quarter without ridges is a valuable quarter error or not. Plus, smooth edge quarter values for broadstrike error quarters 1964 and newer.