What US 1 dollar coins are worth a lot?

Answer 1

It depends a lot on what you mean by "a lot".

In any case no current circulating $1 coins are worth more than face value. You have to go back to $1 coins that were made of 90% silver (1794-1935) or 90% gold (1849-1889) before you come across any that are worth a significant premium, say $1000 or more.

Of course any silver or gold coin will be worth at least as much as its metal value, which changes every day. As an example a common-date silver dollar would be worth around $20 to $22 as of 02/2011, while a gold dollar would be at least $130.

However a rare collectible could be worth thousands of times that much! Just a few samples:

$1 gold

1875 : $500 to $74,000 depending on quality

1861-D: $32,000 to $171,000

$1 silver

1921 Peace: $80 to $150,000

1893-S: $2,250 to $1,150,000

1870-S: $108,000 to $1,231,000

1839: $4,600 to $250,000

1795 small eagle: $1,400 to $569,000

And of course the "1804" dollar. These were actually struck in the 1830s but have sold for as much as $7 million!