This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to ...
An authorized and printed edition of the Emancipation Proclamation's full text signed by President Abraham Lincoln is going ...
The penny was discontinued by the US Treasury earlier this year because they cost more to make than they're worth.
Wheat pennies are a classic example of small change that can secretly be worth a fortune, and a handful of dates and ...
A new nature preserve opened this year in a wooded valley in Bloomingdale, Ohio, about an hour west of Pittsburgh. The ...
An example is the 1943 copper Lincoln penny, which was mistakenly minted during a World War II copper shortage and today is ...