Silver coins can be worth far more than face value. Here are the ones that pack the most precious metal right now.

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence coin ...

An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an old ...

An extremely rare half-dollar coin from 1838, now valued at as much as $500,000, is set for auction this week. The 1838-O Capped Bust half dollar is one of only nine that are known to exist, according ...

Sol Glatstein, a 79-year-old resident of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, took a bus downtown one day last month to sell a mint-condition […] ...

Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a division of Fortune 500 Company Spectrum Group International Inc., combines the extraordinary histories of Stack’s, the oldest rare coin auction and retail company in ...

Silver coins are highly prized by dealers and collectors — not just because of their silver content, but also because they tend to be scarcer than coins minted with copper, nickel, zinc and other ...

Selections from the Dean Oakes Family Collection realized more than $1.5 million during a February 3 sale of the 93 lots that included early American rarities.