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 [...]

There have many different pennies over the years, since the term implies a one-cent piece.  But American pennies are the most popular among collectors today, and that is what we will be focusing on here.  This one-cent coin was the first authorized form of currency in the U.S., and its name was derived from the [...]