You don't need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed around your house filled with quarters, dimes, nickels or ...

The Indian Head penny design dates back to 1859. During the Civil War, the government had difficulty obtaining metal for ...

Like VDB, who struck his initials on the bottom of Lincoln pennies, the designer of the Indian Head — James Longacre –started slipping an L for his last name on the ribbon toward the end of 1964.