Another group of coins that can get collectors excited are commemorative coins issued in 1950 and 1951 from the Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco mints: These commemorative half-dollars ...

Which means an ounce of gold costs nearly thirty times what it did in 1950. In 2006 the average price of gold was about $600 an ounce—half of what it is now. In 2008, almost $900 an ounce.

He explained: "In 1950, they only made 240,000 coins that means for £1,000 you could have bought all the 1950 pennies ever made. After the war there was a great shortage of small change." ...

Another group of coins that can get collectors excited are commemorative coins issued in 1950 and 1951 from the Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco mints: These commemorative half-dollars ...