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

The 1856 Flying Eagle Penny, valued at $25,000, marked a turning point in U.S. coinage. It was one of the first small cents ...

In 1857, the penny’s size was taken down a notch and changed to a copper-nickel alloy known as the Flying Eagle cent. This was quickly replaced by the well-known Indian Head cent — long a ...