An 1804 silver dollar from the collection of the late businessman and philanthropist Larry H. Miller is expected to fetch more than $3 million at an upcoming auction held by Stack’s Bowers Galleries.

The finest example of the 1804 silver dollar known to exist sold for US$7.86 million at a Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction earlier this week, making it the second-most valuable U.S. silver dollar ever ...

The King of American Coins just fetched a princely, world-record sum. The single finest example of the 1804 US silver dollar sold for an astonishing $7.68 million at a Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction ...

On this day in 1804, voters overwhelmingly backed Thomas Jefferson’s bid to serve a second presidential term. Jefferson, a Virginian running as a Democratic-Republican, won nearly 73 percent of the ...

Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the asteroid Juno on September 1, 1804, using a 5-centimeter refracting telescope. Harding's discovery was part of a larger effort by the "Celestial Police" to locate a ...

On this day in 1804, the Senate, for the third time in its then-brief history, began preparations to sit as a trial court. It acted after the House had voted for eight articles of impeachment against ...

On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton — New York’s archetypal founding father and the founder of The Post — was shot in a duel by Vice President Aaron Burr. Editors working on a new edition of the ...