The Coin-price is Right

There are many resources that can help coinIf by luck you happen to get one of these as a
collectors, old or new, in determining the value andchange, the value is more than a dollar and proof
worth of the coins they have.Susan B. Anthony dollars command even more. They
There are books out, "The Red Book" (A Guide Bookare not easy to fine as they are not usually being
of US Coins), "The Blue Book" (A Handbook of UScirculated.
Coins), as well as coin newsletters and cataloguesQuarters, dollars and halves - the bicentennial kind
available at any public or private library, coin dealersThere were billions of these coins made out, and
shops anywhere in the US. There are also onlinebecause there are so many of them, their worth is
guides for the prices of US coins available on the web,usually just face value. There are coin dealers
specifically the NumisMedia site.however who pay ten percent of the face value as
For a synopsis of the price of each coin, the followingpremium for circulated bicentennial coins, and a few
are the basic values of each cent, penny, or dime indollars more for those that are uncirculated.
the market.A freak coin
The United States wheat-cent, the circulated onesBelieve it or not, there are two-headed coins out there.
The price of these coins made prior to 1958, or thoseBasically, these are coins with two different designs on
that are dated 1940, are currently being purchased byeach face. These coins were made in error and
coin dealers for two cents each, or less. Those mademistake was not discoverer until the year 2000. This
before 1940 command a much higher price - from atype of coins is usually called "mules". In 1999, it was
few more cents to a few dollars.found that a cent with Lincoln's face on one side and
The silver-dollarsRoosevelt's dime image on the other existed.
Silver-dollars from the US, especially those madeIt you find a coin of this it must be taken to a legitimate
before 1935, have almost an ounce of silver in them.coin dealer and assessed to determine if is genuine. If
These coins are the favorites of coin collectors andso, this coin could be put up for auction and command
could be sold for more than their actual value in silver ifa few dollars more.
they are undamaged or not worn severely.It is therefore true that a coin is basically worth more
The dollars of Susan B. Anthonythan meets the eye.