Gold has had its biggest sale by investors on record and its worst start to a year in a quarter century.

Has buying famous American rare coins gotten too easy?

All this talk about a copper 1943-S penny, valued at an estimated quarter-million dollars, have you digging through your coin jars and checking your couch cushions?

Check these out: a Brasher doubloon struck nearly 220 years ago; 10 1933 Double Eagles; a silver dollar struck 212 years ago; and the first public unveiling of a rare gold coin owned by the Denver Mint.