As you're spring cleaning your home, don't forget to go through your change jar. Why? A special coin worth a lot of money could be hiding among your spare pennies and dimes. In fact, coming across a ...

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.

Q: My late wife and I kept Eisenhower dollar coins as a way of saving money, and I have about 50 of them. I went to my bank to cash them in, but they wouldn’t take them. They said that the Federal ...

First off, every 1976 Eisenhower Silver Dollar has two years on it – 1776 and 1976. These dates marked the 200 th Anniversary of American Independence. Secondly, not all the coins were minted in 1976.

A: The Eisenhower dollar is still in circulation, but is hard to find because the Treasury department no longer mints the coin. The first silver dollar was struck by the U.S. Mint in 1794 and depicted ...

But selling the American public on the idea of using, not just collecting dollar coins, hasn't been easy. The U.S. Mint has released three other dollar coins since 1971: the President Dwight ...