If you like learning how famous American companies began and developed, you might enjoy scripophily – the collecting of historical stock and bond certificates. Especially desirable are certificates issued by prominent companies that no...

Awhile back, we wrote to you about the different issues of paper money, and mentioned the different types of serial numbers that some collectors seek out. Known as “fancy” notes for their intriguing number...

Ever wonder why you don’t see $1 coins in circulation? After all, the dollar is our country’s basic monetary unit. And $1 coins have been struck during most years from 1794 to the present....

As Felix Dausilio, a school custodian and Connecticut collector, searched the two rolls of Lincoln cents he purchased, he had little idea that the coin he’d find would ignite a collecting frenzy. Dausilio didn’t...