Back in 1999, Jennifer Scott, now 49, heard on the news that the U.S. Mint was issuing quarters to honor each of the 50 states. She began collecting the quarters, each featuring a design specific to ...

Remember that dusty shoebox tucked away in your closet, filled with pennies, quarters, and random coins you collected as a kid? What once seemed like pocket change might now represent a small fortune ...

A rare collection of gold coins dating to the late 19th century was appraised at $2 million in April 2024. Matador Rare Coins Kudos to the shrewd keeper of this collecting family’s purse strings. A ...

In a digital world filled with credit cards, electronic payments and direct deposits, you can go for days without handling actual money. But for collectors and hobbyists all over the world, there’s no ...

One of the key principles of economics when it comes to examining wealth and how it is accumulated is to look at what’s known as “generational wealth.” That is, what monetary assets, investments and ...

Thanks largely to the popularity of a state-themed quarter program that has drawn tens of millions of Americans into coin collecting, the Mint posted a profit of $2.6 billion in fiscal 2000. That ...

The world is full of coin collectors. If everyone in the United States who has begun an album of state quarters counts, then tens of millions of Americans alone are coin collectors. But how can you ...

It doesn’t necessarily take a lot of money to start collecting rare coins, but it does take the right strategy. Starting your collection with $50 requires a combination of knowledge, patience, ...