Two Cents, Three Cents & Half Dimes

1838-1859 Seated Liberty Silver Half Dime Good

The Seated Liberty engraving was modeled off of Britannia, the figure shown on British coinage. The small 90% silver half dime was the five-cent denomination used from the 1790s until the 1860s when...

1865-1889 Three-Cent Nickel & 1867-1883 Shield Nickel Pair Good

1865-1889 Three-Cent Nickel. Obsolete for well over a century, this historic coin was introduced after the Civil War, when super-hard nickel was no longer needed for armaments. Only 32 million ever...

1851-1873 Three Cent Silver Very Good

5 Different 1865-1889 Three-Cent Nickels Very Good

Obsolete for well over a century, the historic three-cent nickel piece was minted as a result of nationwide coin shortages caused by the hoarding of precious metals during the Civil War. Only 32...

1864 & 1865 Two Cent Piece Pair Very Fine

The years-long conflict of the American Civil War caused silver, gold and copper coins to all but disappear from circulation. Introduced in 1864, the peculiar bronze two-cent piece is noteworthy for...

1875-S Seated Liberty Silver 20¢ Very Fine

The short supply of five and ten cent pieces in the Old West during the 1870s gave birth to another oddity of U.S. coinage: the here-and-gone 1875-1878 Seated Liberty silver twenty cent coin. While...