In addition to all the other events this year, U.S. coins also have made the news in a big way. A rare 1971 President Dwight D. Eisenhower prototype silver dollar fetched $264,000 at auction Jan. 14.

Last week we looked at the booming silver and gold markets, and little has changed in the intervening seven days. This week let's cover the trickier side of that market: coins. Very few countries ...

This rare WW1-era lighter, crafted from silver coins, hadn’t sparked in over a century. Watch as I carefully restore it to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- How many of us over the years have spent our spare change to purchase a candy bar or even a bottle of soda, not knowing if one of those coins could have been worth a great deal ...