The Coins in Your Pocket Could be Worth Thousands

The Alaska Rural Rehabilitation 1935 Token - $1,750.

Alaskan families that were relocated by the Federal Emergency Relocation Administration were given $10 “scrip” coins to be used as tender in government stores. Once the need for the coins has died out, the majority of them were melted down. If you’re lucky enough to find one, your .10 coin would be worth $1,750.

Coins in Your Pocket Could be Worth Thousands

The Kennedy 1964 Silver Half Dollar -These Kennedy Half Dollars are worth anywhere from $500 to $1500 in uncirculated condition. See, 1964 was the last year half dollars were minted from 90%+ silver. Those minted between 1965 and 1970 contained less than half of this, minted with 40% silver. After that, the dollars did not contain silver.

The Coins in Your Pocket Could be Worth Thousands

The “Extra Low Leaf” 2004 Wisconsin Quarter - $140

Simply due to an extra lower leaf attached to the corn stalk on the 2004 Wisconsin quarter, this 25 cent piece can now fetch near $140. It’s believed that there are 5,500 of these coins in circulation. How these mint design errors occur, no one truly knows.

Coins in Your Pocket Could be Worth Thousands

Out of all errors possible, this must be the most humorous. Rather than the famous “In God We Trust,” this quarter reads, “In God We Rust.” This error came to be from excess grease build-up in the printing machines at the mint. This fun quarter is worth $100 or so if it still resides in “mint” condition.

2021 Washington quarter dollar bearing a new reverse design

The 56-coin America the Beautiful Quarters Program also instituted under the 2008 law is set to conclude with the January 2021 release of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site quarter dollar representing the state of Alabama. April 5 is scheduled as the official release date by the U.S. Mint through the Federal Reserve of a

illustrating Gen. Washington crossing the Delaware River with his troops during the American Revolution. Issuance of the Washington quarter dollar follows from a provision of the America’s Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008, Public Law 110-456.