What are the US commemorative coins?
Every year, the US Mint makes a new commemorative coin series. The commems are usually made of precious metals but are lesser in gold or silver content than the bullion coins. Some of the faces of iconic men and women who have graced the obverse of the US commemorative coins were Abraham Lincoln, Louis Braille, Thomas Alva Edison, Benjamin Franklin, to name a few. US commemorative coins also marked the important anniversaries in the annals of US history such as the Firs Flight Centennial, US Congress Bicentennial, and etc. What about other interesting US coin collections? Coin collectors in the US and abroad are starting to collect challenge coins from the US armed forces and other institutions. Among the widely collected types of US coins are the error coins. Minting errors dating back to the colonial period until the present have high numismatic values. United States is also the leader in the new breed of coin collecting – metal detecting coins. United States coin collecting has neve
