The last 25-30 years have seen explosive growth in technology and, as you might expect, those advances have made their way into the criminal world, too. They’ve made it possible to produce counterfeit bills that are nearly undetectable by eye, to mimic security features, and to move bogus cash aroun...

Memorial Day is a time to look both back and ahead, and historic coins and currency can help keep those memories alive. Both the US Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing have issued coins and bills that mark important periods in our nation’s history. They may also coincide with memorable mom...

When we think of a Gold Rush, California immediately comes to mind. But fifty years before the Forty-Niners headed west, a North Carolina farmer’s son found a 17-pound yellow rock glittering in the family’s fields. He thought it was interesting enough to keep and brought it home where it served as a...

Wrapping up our series on collecting US dime coins, we take a look at the Roosevelt dime and its 72-year history. FDR and the Dime One of the most influential US presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was at the nation’s helm during some of its most trying times. Coming to office at ...

2009 marked two events in the history of the fourteenth president and the coin that commemorates him. It was the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth and the centennial of the Lincoln one-cent coin. To celebrate the double centennials, a series of coins was released with four different stages of Honest A...

Memorial Day is a time to look both back and ahead, and historic coins and currency can help keep those memories alive. Both the US Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing have issued coins and bills that mark important periods in our nation’s history. They may also coincide with memorable mom...

The shortage of small denomination coins after the Revolutionary War ended in 1784 prompted several northeastern states to produce their own coins to facilitate commerce locally. From 1785 to 1789, when the new US Constitution established a national currency, New York, New Jersey, and Vermont all ha...

Before a coin makes it into circulation it’s subject to scrutiny. Sometimes the coin is modified to make manufacturing easier; sometimes to settle a dispute over its design. And sometimes it just never makes the cut. This was the fate of gold ring dollar. Silver Outshines Gold The C...