Silver coins can be worth far more than face value. Here are the ones that pack the most precious metal right now.

An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an old ...

The finest example of the 1804 silver dollar known to exist sold for US$7.86 million at a Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction earlier this week, making it the second-most valuable U.S. silver dollar ever ...

(Bloomberg) — Sol Glatstein, a 79-year-old resident of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, took a bus downtown one day last month to sell a mint-condition American Silver Eagle dollar coin inherited from his ...

Silver coins are highly prized by dealers and collectors — not just because of their silver content, but also because they tend to be scarcer than coins minted with copper, nickel, zinc and other ...

These days it pays to look closely at your change. The highest silver prices in a generation have spurred Americans to sift through coin jars and jewelry boxes for pieces of the precious metal to sell ...