About Mint Almanac
Mint Almanac tells you what your old US coins and paper money are worth - with a melt-value floor recomputed every day against the live silver and gold price, plus calculators to add up a whole jar, and values by date and grade.
It exists because the popular coin-value sites run on stale, write-once numbers, bury melt value on a separate calculator, or lock a photo identifier behind an app paywall. If you just want to know what a coin is worth today, you should not have to second-guess a number from 2014.
So this is simple: look up a coin, see the value and a live melt floor, see where it came from.
Where the numbers come from
- Melt value: the coin's fine metal content (a fixed mint specification) multiplied by the live silver/gold spot price, refreshed daily.
- Coin values by grade: pinned to published price-guide ranges and real sold-auction prices, labeled as estimates - never presented as an appraisal.
- Specs and mintage: public US Mint data.
Who built it
Solo developer. Independent and privately run. Nothing here is an appraisal or financial advice, and a collectible coin can be worth far more than its melt value. The site is funded by a small, clearly disclosed affiliate component and ads, never by selling your data.
Promises
- No mailing-list rental, no data sale.
- No dark patterns. Unsubscribe is one click.
- Your saved coins stay on your device unless you add your email for price alerts.
- Sources shown so you can verify the value yourself.
- When a number is wrong, it gets fixed quickly.
Coming next
- Coin values by date and mint mark, for every common-to-key US series
- A photo identifier - snap a coin, get its type and what it's worth
- Melt-price alert emails when silver or gold moves your coins
- US paper money: star notes, silver certificates, and serial-number lookups
Contact
Found a wrong figure, a broken page, or want a tool we do not have yet? Drop a note.