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

The site suggests that, if while sifting through your change jar you do come across a 1943 wheat penny, you take it to a coin ...

Factoring in the costs for the raw materials (zinc and copper) and the molding process, a penny worth 1 cent costs over 3 cents to produce. In the modern economy, a coin worth one cent isn't much ...

The penny’s fate remains uncertain. No executive order has been published regarding the president’s penny directive, and the ...

Find Out: These 11 Rare Coins Sold for Over $1 ... the coin’s front are “notable examples” of the doubling effect, according to a blog from Liberation of Sound. This penny’s high value ...

Coin values fluctuate, but it's worth checking your coin jars for this rare penny. Who knows? You could be a millionaire.

It holds the record for the most expensive sale among wheat pennies at $1 ... Penny-Doubled Die Obverse Here is another coin valued at $126,500 (at least, in MS-64 condition) — and most of that ...

Per the latest U.S. Mint report, it costs less than six cents to make a dime ($0.0576). To make a quarter, it cost about 15 cents ($0.1468), and nearly 34 cents for a half-dollar ($0.3397).

Back in 1857, Congress discontinued the half-cent and made the penny smaller to reduce the amount of copper needed, according to the U.S. Mint. In 2013, President Obama said: “Anytime we’re spending ...

An example is the 1943 copper Lincoln penny ... shortage and today is worth as much as $1 million. But there are also lesser-known coins that can fetch a lot of money on the collector’s market.

But finding the right copper coin could make you a millionaire ... The most valuable Lincoln penny is worth $2 million on the collectibles market, and many more are worth five or six figures.