Answer:
In 1943 cents were made of steel with a zinc coating. A very small number of 1943 copper cents were made. A copper one would be of value. But so few were made you have a much better chance of winning the lottery twice than you have of finding a 1943 copper cent.

The 1943 steel cents are silver, gray, black, or a combination. A 1943 copper cent would look like any other wheat cent - copper brown in color. Of the few 1943 copper cents known to exist, almost all are accounted for in private collections.

Question:
How much gold is in a Sacagawea Dollar, known as the "Golden Dollar"?

Answer:
These coins are made to spend as a circulating dollar coin. There's no gold in them. They are composed of a magnesium brass alloy with a copper core.

Questions on the Statehood Quarters:
Is this all the state quarters that have been issued?
Why can't I buy them all at once?
Why do I find "D" minted quarters, but not "P" minted or "S" minted in circulation or at my local bank?

Answer:
The United States Mint's Statehood Quarter Program is a 10 year program with five new quarter coins issued each year. This program began in 1999 with quarters being issued for each state in the Union in the order of admission to the Union. All Statehood Quarters are issued with a "P" or "D" mintmark and are distributed in different parts of the country. In Texas we get state quarter with a "D" mintmark for circulation. Quarters with "S" mintmarks are available only in United States Mint Proof sets.

Question:
I'm looking for a 1951 silver dollar for a 50th birthday gift why can't I find one?

Answer:
No silver dollars were made for that year. Peace dollars were the last circulated silver dollars minted in the United States. The last production year for this coin was in 1935. From 1936 to 1970 no dollar coins were struck for circulation. In 1971 the US Mint issued Eisenhower dollar coins (Ike Dollars), which were made from1971 to 1978. The coins were made for circulation and did not contain any silver. Only the Uncirculated "Ikes" in blue envelopes and the Proof Ikes in brown boxes were issued as 40% silver coins. The Ike Dollars were followed by Susan B. Anthony dollars from 1979 to 1981. None of the SBAs were made of a silver alloy.

The United States Mint began making silver dollars again in 1986 with the issue of Silver American Eagles (Silver Eagles) in October of that year. The Silver Eagles are still being made and are a very popular coin with collectors.

Question:
I found a coin with 2 heads. What's it worth? Isn't this coin a rare mint error coin?

Answer:
Most likely it is a magician's coin that has been manufactured after the coin was produced at the US Mint. This is an altered coin. You can usually detect the alteration on the rim, and the coin sides frequently have 2 different dates.

The U.S. Mint quality control is so stringent it does not produce major errors of this type. In fact the minting process is designed to produce coins with an obverse design and a reverse design. This process precludes the production of coins with two "heads" or two "tails". The U.S. Mint measures its error rate in parts per billion compared with most commercial companies which measure their error rate in parts per million.

A clad quarter with two tails has recently been authenticated. Previously this was thought to be impossible. One expert thinks the mint was under pressure because of the 1965-1967 coin shortage, that one of the obverse dies was replaced with a reverse die and no one caught it.