Check Your Pocket Change for Valuable Coins
You could have a valuable coin or two jingling around in your pocket. We really don’t look at the coins in our pockets, we just give them to a clerk or feed them to a vending machine. It is perfectly possible, however, that you might have a valuable coin [...]

Before the nickel was introduced, small silver coins called half-dimes were used as five-cent pieces.  After America was first discovered by Europeans, silver was plentiful so many American coins were made of silver, until the American Civil War when silver became scarce.  From this point on (and to this day) five-cent pieces were made with [...]