The decision on whether to spend or save coins is usually pretty simple. In nearly all cases, if you don't spend them, then ...

There have been just two exceptions to that rule: the Kennedy half-dollar was minted less than a year after the president was assassinated, and the dollar Sacagawea coin used a model. In 2004 ...

The U.S. Mint is now selling the 2025 Native American $1 coin, which features Hawaiian scholar and composer Mary Kawena Pukui.

But there are rare instances when that pile of metal might hold a fortune, such as a Sacagawea Dollar coin worth six figures or a Lincoln penny worth a couple million dollars. Lincoln pennies are ...