The Bugs Bunny Franklin Half Dollar features a mashup that “produced the rather comical effect” of a buck-toothed Benjamin ...

“Coin of ascertained weight and fineness, duly stamped and authenticated by the government, is the only safe standard of money; and … no form of credit-currency is safe unless it be ...

Could your 2p coin be worth a grand? That's the question on everyone's lips thanks to a TikTok user with nearly 200,000 followers sharing insider tips on valuable coins. Recently capturing the ...

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As James Garfield entered the White House ... he set out to trace a dollar from the pocket of the taxpayer to the state treasury, and thence out into all the possible forms of public expenditure ...

Minting coins isn't exactly an exact science. Even though most coins are perfect and uniform, small mistakes can result in ...

Amidst all of this, James Garfield was elected president, bringing hope to Americans of all backgrounds across the nation.

In 1880, James Garfield traveled to Republican party headquarters in New York for a meeting with the leader of the Stalwart faction of the party, Roscoe Conkling. Garfield’s trip culminated in ...

Benjamin Franklin was a man of many professions and talents -- tradesman, publisher, writer, artist, scientist, inventor, ...

And then it happened again—and again. In 1881, James Garfield became the second president to be killed in office, shot by a jilted job-seeker who ambushed him at a Washington train station.

The $1.13 billion Mega Millions ticket sold at a Neptune grocery store has still gone unclaimed six months after the drawing.

A postmistress could be set to make hundreds of pounds after finding a botched £1 coin. Diane Bath, 62, who runs The Post Office in Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, spotted a new £1 King Charles ...