Here’s a selection of paper money and coins from the past 250 years, right up through this era’s planned greenbacks.

A new study merges physics with archival documents to figure out how the Founding Father’s printing network made distinct paper currency. By Laura Baisas Published Jul 18, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the ...

Researchers have uncovered previously unknown money-printing innovations developed by Benjamin Franklin, and one of them told Newsweek which one of those innovations served a double purpose. Franklin, ...

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

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Researchers have used physics to get a peek at the early history of American money—and how Benjamin Franklin’s innovative way of making it kept him one step ahead of counterfeiters. Franklin may be ...

A papermaker in Massachusetts named Zenas Marshall Crane is traditionally credited with being the first to include tiny fibers in the paper pulp used to print currency in 1844. But scientists at the ...

Though perhaps better known for its newspapers and almanacs, Benjamin Franklin’s printing business also churned out paper money to support the colonial economy. Now, scientists are confirming some of ...