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 [...]

Due to the Mint Act of April 2, 1792, which stated that certain coins had to have an image that represented liberty along with the word “liberty” and on the other side an eagle and the term “The United States of America,” the quarter’s design was specified.  For the first 115 years of the quarter’s [...]