But there are rare instances when that pile of metal might hold a fortune, such as a Sacagawea Dollar coin worth six figures or a Lincoln penny worth a couple million dollars. Lincoln pennies are ...

Graham Lanz [letters, April 7] suggested that the Sacagawea dollar coin would become popular if we eliminated the dollar bill and the cent, so that the cent's slot in the coin drawer could be used ...

The image of the Shoshone Indian, Sacagawea, is featured on the struggling dollar coin that was launched with great fanfare and a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz just more than two years ago.

Congress on Tuesday approved a redesign of the Sacagawea dollar in hopes of enticing consumer and business use of the gold-colored dollar. Under legislation passed by voice vote in the House and ...

If you are a rare coin collector, you know it’s not always the perfect coins that are the most valuable. There are many criteria that make a coin worth lots of money in today’s currency, as ...

W A S H I N G T O N, April 4 -- The Sacagawea dollar was introduced more than two years ago with a slick, $40 million television ad campaign. The celebrity spokesman was the original George W.

A man holds a handful of $1 coins in Quito, Ecuador. While the coins are often shunned in the United States, theye prized in Ecuador. (Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/TNS) QUITO, Ecuador — Busy selling ...

When most people envision Sacagawea, they think of her portrait on the golden dollar coin. They’re thinking of a Fort Hall resident. Randy’L Teton, the spokeswoman for the Shoshone-Bannock ...

that were intended for the Sacagawea dollar. “Curious how the alloy would look on quarters, a bunch of Georgia state ones were minted using it,” the U.S. Coins Guide noted in a blog.

But there are rare instances when that pile of metal might hold a fortune, such as a Sacagawea Dollar coin worth six figures or a Lincoln penny worth a couple million dollars. Lincoln pennies are well ...