An extremely rare half-dollar coin from 1838 has been sold at auction for $504,000.

A vintage 1838-O Capped Bust Half Dollar coin, originally worth 50 cents, has sold for $504,000 at an auction in Baltimore.

The Kennedy half dollar was first minted in 1964 in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- the coin's obvious namesake. It was a commemorative issuance made in Kennedy's ...

Recognizing the dime’s value, the collector submitted it for authentication at ANACS, a coin grading company that determines the authenticity and condition of rare coins.

A precious metals dealer has been asked to pay up $146 million in damages after over half a million silver coins went missing.

The dime was displayed at a coin show in Tampa, Florida before being sold in an online auction on October 27, where it fetched more than half a million dollars.

The surest way to send people shuffling through their loose change jars is to spread the word about a seemingly average coin selling for around half-a-million dollars. That’s what happened a few ...

The face value of every half-cent is half a penny — or 1/200th of a dollar. Today that wouldn't buy you anything, but back before this coin was retired in 1856, a half-cent still had some purchasing ...