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, ...

When printing paper money is your core business, hyperinflation is your best friend and digital transactions are your worst enemy. How Germany’s Giesecke & Devrient has learned to thrive in a low ...

As the United States retires the penny, it should also reexamine larger cash denominations. The nickel is an obvious ...

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In between his many accomplishments—inventing the lightning rod, founding the University of Pennsylvania, drafting the Declaration of Independence—Benjamin Franklin also devised innovative and secure ...

Pull any bill out of your wallet. See the dark green numbers on the top-left and top-right corners? Those are serial numbers, and some are more rare than others. If you happen to have paper money with ...

FROM 1797 to 1821, a period of twenty-four years, the use of coined money and of its representatives was lost in England, through causes much the same as those which produced a like result in this ...