AboutMyCoinCoin Information & Values
A coin is worth either face value, its melt value, or a collector value. Sometimes a mix. If a coin has precious metal content, it is worth at least its weight in precious metal. The simple answer is a coin is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
Most coins are worth their face value — the purchasing power they hold, and nothing more. The ones that carry a premium contain a precious metal, such as silver, gold or platinum, or are scarce for another reason: a rare date or mint mark, or a coin in better condition than the ones that survived beside it.
What that metal is worth on its own is worked out coin by coin under melt values.
By metal type
Precious metal content first, because melt price is a hard floor, and for a common coin that holds silver or gold it is very close to what the coin should sell for.
By series
Look up your coin by series. Coins in one series usually share the same specifications.
By country
Find your coin by country when the date and the denomination mean nothing until you know where it was struck.
By topic
The categories the trade uses — key dates, junk silver, bullion, wartime issues. All topics.
