Money

Canada will have plenty of time to get used to Viola Desmond—she'll soon be on the country's $10 bills.

Canada Will Put Another Woman on Its Currency

An early civil rights heroine makes history (again)

Love Locks on the Pont de l'Archevêché bridge in 2012.

Paris Is Selling Old Love Locks to Raise Money For Refugees

Putting clipped locks to good use

The new, meatier five-pound note

Why Vegetarians Hate the U.K.'s New £5 Note

The new currency uses a polymer that contains some animal fat, and it turns out at least 24 other nations use the same product

"You have students drowning in debt and scholarships that go unawarded. The system is broken," says Christopher Gray.

Christopher Gray's Scholly App Is Bringing Millions of Dollars to College Students in Need

The entrepreneur's new digital platform has helped applicants land $50 million in scholarships

Deadwood's Racketeer Nickel

A Brief History of the Racketeer Nickel

A fraudulent 5-cent piece dug up in Deadwood may not be very valuable, but its story is worth its weight in gold

The Colosseum Waits on Funding for Critical Repairs in the Fight Over Rome’s Subway System

Caretakers fear the row over the metro's overspending could endanger the ancient arena

An original Western Union stock ticker from the Oakland Museum of California.

The Physical Stock Ticker Is a Relic, But Its Influence Reverberates Loudly Today

On this day 149 years ago, the first digital transmitter debuted

Katsuren Castle in Okinawa, Japan is an unlikely place for a cache of ancient Roman coins.

Archaeologist Finds Ancient Roman Coins in 12th-Century Japanese Castle

East meets west

Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Oren Lyons, Ph.D., (right), and The Tadodaho of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chief Sidney Hill, examine a treaty at the National Museum of the American Indian

Why the U.S. Government Is Paying Half a Billion in Settlements to 17 Tribal Governments

That adds to 95 cases the U.S. has settled with native groups since 2012

No matter how you slice it, the most current Census Bureau income report is filled with juicy stats.

Five Things to Know About the Most Recent Census Income Report

Income’s up, but the picture is more complicated than that

"Everything is awesome," Lego executives might as well be singing.

North America Is Crazy For Lego Toys and the Manufacturer Can’t Keep Up

The bricks keep kids and adults coming back for more

Ooh, shiny.

The Government Just Won a Long Legal Battle Over Rare Coins

The enigmatic Double Eagles are anything but trinkets

Artist sketches of D.B. Cooper, who vanished in 1971 with $200,000 in stolen cash.

After 45 Years, the FBI Has Officially Stopped Looking for D.B. Cooper

The mysterious skyjacker got away clean

Money tossed into a fountain at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What Happens to the Coins Tossed Into Fountains?

All that money has to go somewhere

This sad relic of ancient Rome is up for adoption.

Rome Is Looking for People to Adopt Famous, Falling-Apart Sites

When in Rome, pony up some cash for cultural preservation

Not only does it cost the Mint more to make a penny than it's worth, but making the penny has an environmental cost, too.

How Much Does it Really Cost (the Planet) to Make a Penny?

All that copper and zinc for a coin most people throw away--what's the sustainable solution?

Say "Au Revoir" to France's Foie Gras (Only For a Bit)

Fowl flu fuels foie gras fears

March on Washington, August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial

How the Redesign of U.S. Money Shows the Power of Protest

A Smithsonian curator notes how a heavy dose of social activism prompted the U.S. Treasury to honor historic social and political movements

Spanish Ditch Diggers Unearth 1,300 Pounds of Roman Coins

Workers near Seville, Spain, found a hoard of 19 amphora filled with mint-condition coins from the third and fourth centuries

The history behind America's five-cent coin

A Brief History of the Nickel

In honor of the coin’s 150th anniversary, read up on how the nickel came to be minted

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