LOS ANGELES — What may be America’s oldest silver dollar has become the world’s most expensive coin, with its owner saying it changed hands in a private transaction between coin collectors for nearly ...

The United States was a very young country when it minted its first coins. The Coinage Act of 1792 authorized the U.S. Mint to produce copper, silver and gold coins for circulation, according to the ...

What may be America's oldest silver dollar has become the world's most expensive coin, with its owner saying it changed hands in a private transaction between coin collectors for nearly $8 million.

Talk about appreciation. The going price for a 216-year-old silver dollar is — drum roll, please — $7.85 million, making it the world’s most expensive coin, bought by a Sunnyvale outfit. “It’s an ...

“This is a dream coin – a priceless artifact that I have been proud to own, and I’m very sorry to see it go,” Bruce Morelan, who owns the rare 1794 silver dollar, told CNN. Morelan, a collector who is ...

A rare 1794 U.S. silver dollar, believed to be the first ever silver dollar minted by a newborn United States, is going up for sale by a Middletown coin dealer. "This coin is the Holy Grail of all ...

The copper prototype dates to 1794, the year that the U.S. Mint first struck its famed "Flowing Hair" silver dollars. Heritage Auctions A one-of-a-kind coin struck at the United States Mint in 1794 ...

A rare 1794 silver dollar believed to be one of the first – if not the first – to be struck by the US Mint is going up for sale. Dubbed the “Flowing Hair” dollar, the coin features a portrait of Lady ...