The World's Loneliest ATM is in Antarctica
Despite the frigid temperatures, ornery elephant seals, and months of perpetual darkness, Antarctica is still a place where money matters.
During WWII, the U.S. government was scared that Japan might take all of Hawaii's money. Here's what they did to stop it.
Sure, Don Draper is one of Madison Avenue's most in-demand (albeit fictional) ad men. But is he living beyond his means?
Andrew Jackson will always be the seventh President of the United States. But if Women on 20s get its way, his mug will no longer be on our money.
We hear a lot of bad stories about cheap tippers and even cruel tippers, but it’s a lot rarer to hear about excessive and genuinely kind tippers. Fortunately, such people are out there.
A little fiscal etymology.
Hannah Keyser looks into what makes the $2 bill so special.
There are a handful of currencies around the world that you can only spend in a single town or city. Here are seven of the best-known examples.
Sometimes, thanks to rarity, historical happenstance, or minting or printing errors, our cash is worth more than its face value. Occasionally, a lot more.
With such a long reign and so many nations issuing money with her image on it, there are enough banknote portraits to construct an aging timeline for the Queen.
Sure, state quarters and presidential dollar coins may be fun. But for a truly unique coin, you need to think outside the box—or the circle, as it were—and come up with a truly original shape.
President Obama recently suggested the retirement of the penny as a way of reducing the federal budget, since it costs nearly two and a half times its face value to mint. While that may not happen any time soon, it’s still interesting to look at some othe
If you ever find yourself in a Brewster’s Millions situation and have to burn through a fortune in a hurry, then all you need are this article, a few plane tickets and an empty stomach. (It never hurts to plan for the unexpected.)
We’ve all found something that we thought might be worth a lot of money. We have not all been fortunate enough to stumble across anything actually worth a fortune. Rob has shared some of these stories before, but here are a few more people who accidentall
If you like sampling new beers or hate having money, you might want to try one of these budget-busting brews.
While Liberace’s talents on the ivory keys made him famous, it was his showmanship that made him one of the world's highest-paid entertainers throughout the fifties, sixties and seventies. Here's a look at some of the extravagance that helped make a legen
The story behind all those slips you've been hoarding for months. Coupons are often worth 1/10th, 1/20th, or 1/100th of a cent; however to understand why, one must look at trading stamps.
Sounds like we need to plan a weekend trip to Vegas ASAP and hope the stars are shining down on us.
Nothing like a train heist to grab out attention. There's a reason they called it the Wild West.
A lot of people assume that it's just the way that coins smell, and the odor is rubbing off on their hands, but you're not smelling the metal so much as you're smelling yourself.
When you want to keep a vast fortune or priceless object secure, look no further: These safes and vaults are famous for being virtually impregnable.
Even during the worst economic downturn in modern U.S. history, some folks still knew how to make a buck—many bucks, in fact.