(Photo: Thomas E. Jacks/Find-a-Grave)The cause of...  ...as the official symbol for new nation’s own currency

(Image: Shannon Molloy)In the Simpsons episode "Ba...  ...charge of 900 dollarydoos. This is not the actual currency of Australia, which is crocodile teeth of differe...  ...ncerned citizens who wish to rename that nation's currency the dollarydoo in order to stimulate the Australi...

(Photo: New York Times)Take a trip to Bixton, a tr...  ...y owned cafes and shops, you can pay in the local currency . That’s not the British pound. It’s a...  ...bove. It reflects a trendy new fashion: artisanal currency . Dan Crane writes about it in the New York Times:...  ...ies that want to keep...

(Photo: US Post Office)In a fascinating article at...  ...ls-Arkell tells us about United States fractional currency . During the American Civil War, the Trent Affair...  ...ar scare resulted in popular hoarding of metallic currency .It was necessary to print out money in a hurry, s...  ...e chaos, the United St...

A chestburster from AlienWhat makes Donovan Clark's alternations of money so impressive is that they appear to leap off the paper. After he works on a one dollar bill, George Washington is ready to burst out of your ches...

(Photo: Ervins Strauhmanis)What's keeping the juic...  ...years. In 2009 just 30 percent of discarded paper currency in the U.S. was recycled. Today roughly 94 percen...

Fiji - Fiive DollarsThere's nothing like having a...  ...a little flashier. See more examples of beautiful currency from around the world here. Qatar - Qatar Riyal C...

Back in 2009, Swedish graphic designer Perniclas Bedow created an award-winning map of the world using coins from various countries. The map contains about 3,000 coins of varying currencies. See if your country's coins a...

(Images: Heritage Auctions)For much of American hi...  ...)For much of American history, banks issued paper currency that customers could redeem for gold. This is why...

After an outcry of protest that the bankno...  ...tcry of protest that the banknotes of the British currency are mostly filled with faces of men, the Bank of...