During The Great Depression, A Community In California Used Clamshells As Temporary Money
In the Great Depression, during the emergency bank holiday, people in Pismo Beach, California found a good stand-in for regular currency.
A Radio Show In Tennessee Told Listeners They Had To Recycle Their Old-Style $20 Bills
As a Halloween week prank in 1998, DJs in Tennessee said people had to exchange their old $20 bills for the new ones, or they would become worthless.
On The Micronesian Island Of Yap, Huge Stone Discs Are Used As Money
This is Money Smart Week, so we're going to look at what exactly money is and what it means, by looking at a kind of money on a Pacific island made out of huge stones.
Every July 1 Is A Million Dollar Day For Baseball’s Bobby Bonilla
Longtime baseball fans know this is the day each year that former star Bobby Bonilla gets more than a million bucks from the New York Mets, as part of the strangest salary deal the sport's ever seen.
Patrick Combs Cashed A $95,000 Promotional “Check” And Actually Got The Money
This month in 1995, the conclusion of a very odd saga involving one Patrick Combs, who deposited a promotional check from a piece of junk mail and actually got the money!
A US Treasury Official Decided To Feature Himself On Currency
For National Dollar Day, the story of the time a guy overseeing the printing of US money decided the best person to feature on that money was… himself.
The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent
Around this time in 1935, the US government was making a big decision about some small amounts of money: there was a push to create a kind of currency worth a tenth of a cent.
Getting A Thousand Bucks In Oily Pennies In Your Driveway Is One Way To Wrap Up A Job
Leaving a job usually means wrapping things up with your soon to be ex-employer including getting a final paycheck. But here’s the story of a guy who got a pretty unpleasant sendoff.
Pennies Were First Used Back When A Penny Was Worth Something, By Golly
Today in 1793, the U.S. Mint issued its first circulating coins, which were one-cent pieces. Here's a little bit about how we got the penny and some of its most memorable designs.
Tenino, Washington, The Town That Makes Its Own Money Out Of Wood
Digital currencies are having a rough 2022, but one alternative currency has been doing pretty well for itself lately. That’s the wooden money made in Tenino, Washington.