Many valuable and rare coins from the 1940s remain in circulation today, including the Mercury dime, which was produced from ...
In November, state agents arrested Eric Schmitt, of Fort Pierce, after discovering 50 gold coins had been stolen in 2015 from the sunken 1715 Fleet.
No coins were available at this time except for various foreign coins such as the widely traded and trusted Spanish real dollars. The first coinage act was proposed and it passed Congress under ...