Before you toss your spare quarters into a vending machine or feed them to a CoinStar, consider this: one specific American ...

The bicentennial coins faced opposition when it was first ... Some of the most expensive 1776-1976 silver dollars are worth as much as $30,000. The Sheldon Scale is used by numismatists to provide ...

The U.S. Mint also produced a series of bicentennial quarters to commemorate the event — and many of those now command great sums of money as the country approaches its 250 th birthday. Read Next: 6 ...