Seated Liberty Dollar
1840 - 1873
The Seated Liberty Dollar was first minted in 1840. At that time the same obverse design was used for all 
U.S. silver coins. The design was created by Christian Gobrecht. The obverse features Lady Liberty sitting on a rock, in her right hand she holds the Union Shield inscribed with the word “LIBERTY” and in her left hand she holds a long staff,
The reverse side of the Seated Liberty Dollar features an eagle with the Union Shield across its breast. The eagle is holding an olive branch in its right talons and three arrows in its left talons. The words “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” appear in an arc around the upper half of the coin and the words “ONE DOL.” at the bottom below the eagle. Read more
American Silver Eagle
1986 - Present
The American Silver Eagle was first produced by the U.S. Mint in November of 1986. This coin contains 
99.999% pure silver and although it bears a One Dollar face value it has never been circulated nor has it ever been available at face value. The American Silver Eagle is an ideal way to collect silver as it is recognized and trusted around the world for its silver content. The American Silver Eagle has been minted at three different mints; Philadelphia, San Francisco, and West Point.
The value of the American Silver Eagle is based on more than just its silver content. Due to the limited numbers produced and the varying numbers minted each year this coin also enjoys “collectable value” with some years and mint mark combinations bringing much more than others. Read more
Barber Half Dollar
1892 - 1915
The Barber Half Dollar is also referred to as the Liberty Head Half Dollar. Throughout the 1880s relatively little quarters and halves were struck as the government had sufficient stock piles of older coins in it’s 
vaults to satisfy demand. By 1890 the stockpile of quarters and halves had dropped to levels low enough as to require more normal production numbers. At this time plans were being made to modify the design of US silver coins.
In 1890 a contest was setup at the behest of Mint Director James P. Kimball to obtain a new design for US silver coins. The Treasury received around 300 entries, but not a single one was deemed to be good enough for use on the new coins. In 1891 the task of designing the new coins was turned over to Charles E. Barber, chief sculptor and engraver for the U.S. Mint. Read more
Benjamin Franklin Half Dollar
1948 - 1963
The Benjamin Franklin Half Dollar was the first circulated US coin to feature a real person, who was not a 
president, in the design. The idea for a coin to honor Benjamin Franklin came from Mint Director Nellie Tayloe Ross. Franklin was very well known and respected not only for his role as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, but also for his talents as a writer, printer, scientist and inventor.
Sinnock died in 1947 before the design was completed. He had not included an eagle in the design, although the Coinage Act of 1873 mandated that an eagle had to appear on all US silver containing coins bigger than the dime. The task of adding the eagle to the reverse was given to Gilroy Roberts. Read more
Liberty Nickel
1883 - 1912
The Liberty Nickel, also called the V Nickel or Barber Nickel, was first struck in 1883. In the beginning of the year the coin was minted without the word “cents” below the “V” on the reverse. The Coinage Act of 1792 did not require coins higher than one cent in value to include the denomination, so this is not 
surprising. It seems that many unscrupulous people started gold plating the coin and passing it off as a five dollar gold piece. The problem was with the “V” combined with no denomination which made it easy for a gold plated nickel to be mistaken for a five dollar gold piece. These gold plated examples are still common today and are referred to as “racketeer nickels”.
Approximately 5.5 million 1883 Liberty Nickels were struck without the word “CENTS”; this is referred to as the “Type 1 Liberty Nickel”. In the middle of the year the design was modified to include the word “CENTS” below the “V”; this is the “Type 2 Liberty Nickel”. 16 million Type 2 nickels were produced during the remainder of the year. Surprisingly, the Type 1 is actually more common in high grades than the Type 2, because many of the Type 1 examples were put back and collected. Read more