Often the most expensive and rare coins sold at auction come with the best backstories.

Coin collecting was once a very popular hobby in America. From pennies to half dollars, people would look for (and sometimes find) coins of worth beyond their face value, and sell them to serious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has stopped producing pennies, ending more than 230 years of minting the 1-cent ...