United States Coins

As a colony, then a nation, the demand for coins in the United States has often exceeded the supply. From the early colonial issues and first coins struck by the Philadelphia mint, to the private and territorial gold issues of the Western states, California fractional gold, Confederate issues, and Civil War Tokens, Hawaii and Puerto Rican coinage, Philippines under US sovereignty, classic and modern commemoratives and the vast array of coins struck for circulation US coins throughout its history tell a story.