The CoinFacts "Cool Coin" Archive

The following list of past CoinFacts "Coins of the Week" includes some of the most incredible, valuable, and fascinating American Coins!  Click on any of the individual coins or, if you'd like to take the complete tour, click here and follow each of the "Cool Coins Tour" links at the top of each page.

1817/4 Capped Bust Half Dollar
1958-D Franklin Half Dollar
1767 French Colonies Sou without the "RF" counterstamp
1999-P One Dollar - Experimental Planchet
1933 Double Eagle
1915-S Panama-Pacific Half Dollar
1822 Dime
2002 Indiana 50 States Quarter Dollar
Judd 110a - an 1846 Quarter Eagle Die Trial Overstruck with an 1846 Half Eagle Obverse
2002 Louisiana 50 States Quarter Dollar
1848 "CAL." Quarter Eagle
1796 Quarter Dollar
1796 "With Pole" Half Cent
1866 Seated Liberty Dime
2002 Ohio 50 States Quarter Dollar
1794 Franklin Press Token
1792 Silver-Center Cent
(1759) Martha Washington Quarter Dollar
2002 Tennessee 50 States Quarter Dollar 
1849 Moffat & Company Five Dollars 
Undated Fugio Cent - Newman 101-AA in Copper 
1797 Half Eagle - 15 Obverse Stars, Normal Date, Heraldic Eagle Reverse
1866 Pattern 5 Cents - Judd 487
1788 Vermont Copper - Ryder 30
1999 Delaware Quarter Struck on an Experimental Planchet 
1920 Buffalo Nickel Struck in Copper
2001 Kentucky 50 States Quarter Dollar
The Norris, Gregg & Norris $5 Gold
The Fugio Cent
2001 Vermont 50 States Quarter Dollar
1842 Half Eagle in Proof - only two known 
2001 Rhode Island 50 States Quarter Dollar
2001-D American Buffalo Commemorative Silver Dollar
2001-P Sacagawea Dollar - Experimental Rinse
1795 Half Eagle - Plain Eagle Reverse
1815 Half Eagle 
1796 Myddelton Token in Copper
1852 Wass Molitor & Co. Ten Dollars - Pointed Bust, Narrow Date
1883 Hawaiian Dollar in Proof
North Carolina 50 States Quarter™
1842 Half Dollar - Small Date, Small Letters Reverse
1876-CC Twenty Cents
1913 Liberty Head Nickel
1927-D Double Eagle
1786 Immunis Columbia Pattern - Maris 3-C
1999 Cent/Dime Mule
New York 50 States Quarter™
1792 Washington / Large Eagle with Stars "Pattern" in Copper
1881 Pattern Three Cents
1787 Massachusetts One Cent
1875 Pattern Twenty Cents in Copper
Unique 1794 One Dollar Die Trial in Copper
Rhode Island Ship Token in Pewter
1792 Pattern Cent in Copper  
1861 Confederate Cent  
1898 Quarter Dollar  
1867 Three Cents (Silver)  
1794 Large Cent - Sheldon 24  
2000 Virginia "50 States" Quarter Dollar
1821 Half Eagle  
Obverse Die for an 1882 Double Eagle
1879 Pattern Silver Dollar - Judd 1613
1864 Small Motto Two Cents  
1943 Copper Cent
1859 over 1859 Indian Head Cent Mule
2000-P Massachusetts Quarter struck over a 1999-P Georgia Quarter 
1852/1 United States Assay Office of Gold "Humbert" $20   
1884 Trade Dollar  
1870-S Half Dime  
2000 New Hampshire Quarter Dollar
(1999) Martha Washington "Cent" Trial Strike
August Bechtler Five Dollars - Chapman Restrike  
Golden treasure from the S.S. "Central America" shipwreck
(2000-P) Washington Quarter/Sacajawea Dollar Mule Error
1856 Flying Eagle Cent Die Hub Trials?  
1798 Half Eagle - "Small Eagle" Reverse  
1933 Eagle  
1886 Indian Head Cent, Type 2 
1839 Silver Dollar  
1875 Eagle ($10 Gold)  
1796 Large Cent - Sheldon 112 
1852 Gold "Ring" Dollar  
Confederatio Peace Token 
1835 Half Eagle  
1825 "5 over 4" Half Eagle  
(1785) Bar "Cent" 
1797 Eagle, Stars Arranged 12 Left, 4 Right 
1856 Flying Eagle Cent Pattern in Copper - Judd 181 
(1861) John Parsons & Company $2½ Gold  
1866 "No Motto" Quarter Dollar 
1793 "Wreath" Cent, PCGS MS-69 Brown 
1845 Proof Half Cent 
(1659) Maryland Sixpence 
1854 Small Indian Head Gold Dollar  
1843 Proof Half Dime - Triple Punched Date  
1833 Proof Half Eagle  
1825 Proof Dime  
1804 Plain 4 $10 Eagle Proof  
1854 Kellogg & Company Twenty Dollars  
1847 Hawaii Keneta (One Cent or Hapa Hanele)  
1849 Mormon Gold Five Dollars  
1916 Standing Liberty Quarter Dollar  
1841 Proof Large Cent 
1827 Quarter Dollar Restrike  
1838-O Half Dollar  
1792 Pattern Quarter Dollar in Copper  
1895 Morgan Dollar  
New York Theatre Penny 
1850 Baldwin & Company $10 Gold  
1776 Continental Dollar  
1872 Amazonian $20 Gold Pattern  
1849-C Gold Dollar "Open Wreath"  
1792 Birch Cent  
1787 Brasher Doubloon 
1849 $20 Liberty 
1804 Silver Dollar  
1851-O Silver Dollar  
1915-S Panama-Pacific $50 Round