Coins can become valuable for several reasons, ranging from their historical value to their metal content. In nearly all ...

The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night Abraham Lincoln wore them to the theater. Even on a celebratory night marking an end to war, Lincoln disliked donning the flashy bit of ...

A single coin can be worth a lot of money -- a pretty penny, one might say -- if it's rare and has enough historical ...

The Lincoln Wheat Penny was created by the United States Mint in 1909 to honor the country's brave Civil War leader. It was ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...