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 ...

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

The confusion and commotion over cryptocurrency often reminds me of the 19th-century German drama Faust. In Goethe’s ...

Its secured inside your lock box or deep in a dresser drawer — the $2 bill. But some of the less-used currency could be worth far more than face value. Depending on the year and how a $2 bill was ...

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 ...

A US Senator wants to speed up a decade-long plan to replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, renewed ...