Any of those — perhaps especially the condoms — will get far better name recognition down the road than coins whose only purpose is to pad out peoples’ absurdly overdone coin display cases.

The precious $20 coin, reputed to have saved a man's life, is now on display. Historians believe the coin, recovered last year from the Confederate Submarine H.L. Hunley, deflected a bullet while ...

Only 13 Double Eagles are known today and in 2002 one was sold for 7.6 million US dollars (about £4.8 million), making it the most expensive gold coin in the world to come to auction at that time.