Coin collectors, or numismatists, know the value of many coins and understand that the better shape a coin is in, the higher ...

What Is the 1990 Lincoln Penny Made Of? The 1990 Lincoln penny is made of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper. In the past, from 1909 ...

Check your pockets for one of the five coins from the 1960s that could be worth thousands of dollars. Here are their ...

A childhood rhyme goes a little something like this: "Find a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck!" But what ...

As with any asset, rare coins have varying degrees of value. A coin that sells for hundreds or thousands of dollars on the ...

These days cashiers might not even give you your change back if it's less than a nickel, as pennies are often forgotten and ...

If you've ever gotten into coin collecting, you likely have looked up values of rare ones that could still be in circulation.

You may not realize it, but one of the most valuable items in your home could be small enough to hold in the palm of your ...

Charlie Burton, the best-known and most acclaimed musician from Lincoln of the '70s, '80s and early '90s, died Sunday after a ...

The budget, which has a 5% spending increase from last year, calls for a hike in the property tax levy of about 3.9 cents.

Timothy W. Townsend was born in a Quaker family turned Methodist, in 1844 in Ohio living in a house which was a stop on the ...

Carl Moyer, the Ankeny businessman who founded Karl Chevrolet, passed away Saturday. Moyer, who grew up on Des Moines' east ...