One particular 25-cent coin is a prime example-it's worth much more than the usual quarter, potentially even $5 million or more. It's all about finding the right variant, and the key is ...

Collectibles These 25 cent coins from 25 years ago are worth thousands of dollars: check your year 2000 quarters to see if you have one. While most quarters from this era are worth face value, the ...

Coin collectors are paying up to $144,000 for these two 25-cent coins. Find out if you have one: features, year, etc. Daniela Barrera Greg Heilman. Estados Unidos Update: Nov 19th, 2024 19:28 EST.

On the other hand, the Mint found, a quarter costs 14.68 cents to make — less than its 25-cent value — and a half-dollar coin costs just 34 cents to produce.

That's also more than half of the 25 cent coin's buying power today. The quarter's unit cost has increased by 26.2% since the Mint's 2023 report, when its price tag was closer to 12 cents.

About two per cent of the total coins in circulation, or roughly $180 million worth, are still the 1 one cent, 10 cent and 25 cent coins that were demonetised six years ago in 2018.

The Mint, which has made the coin since 1793, lost $85.3mn last year on producing the penny after unit costs rose by 20.2 per cent owing to the price of copper and zinc rising. Some content could ...