COVID, war, inflation, drug overdoses, the Yankees. Enough stress! Let's take a stress break. A slice of American history with *very* little science. And some pretty pictures too. Coins are ...

In the first half of the 20th century, director of the United States Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross made a point to include the face of one of his idols, Benjamin Franklin, in some of the coins in ...

Jon Martin, coin collector and expert, is giving away 10 copper and silver coins from the early 1800s by hiding them in areas across Rogers Park until the end of the year.

While credit cards and inflation have rendered coins useless for day-to-day transactions, some coins have a different purpose in the modern day: They are collector's items. This is true for the 2-cent ...

Every day, thousands upon thousands of coins continue to exchange hands throughout the country despite the widespread use of credit cards. The vast majority of these are only worth their face value, ...

It's the end of an era. After 233 years, the U.S. Mint will stop making cents. A Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY that the government placed its last order of blank coins to ...

Demand for coins had halved in the last five years, the Mint boss said as 2020 dawned, and he expected Australia’s smallest coins – the echidna-emblazoned five and the 10 cent piece with its lyrebird ...