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 years ...

An incredibly rare dime has sold for the equivalent of more than 5 million ordinary dimes. The coin, whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s, sold for $506,250 in an online ...

for even more money — $516,000, a new record — to a Roosevelt dime collector. Before you go digging around in search of a 1975 dime, you should know this: Your chances of having the rare dime are ...