The nickel has a long history in U.S. money, though it wasn't the country's first 5-cent coin. That honor goes to a ...

Coin collecting is a serious pastime for some and a casual hobby for others, but it can also be an investment with high ...

President Trump solved the penny problem but now we have a nickel problem. But it's deeper than that. At the core, we have a ...

Canada did away with its one-cent coin more than a decade ago. It could offer insight into what the U.S. may be on the verge of doing.

In 1989, for example, Arizona Rep. Jim Hayes proposed the Price Rounding Act, which called for cash purchases to be rounded to the nearest nickel. It didn’t pass. More recently, in 2017, Republican ...

We children used to warble, "Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam | Where the deer and the antelope play | Where seldom ...

Local coin collectors welcome the decision, while economists say it may not be as cost-saving as you think.

President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of ...

But, he says, “because nobody wants to use pennies, they fall out of active circulation much faster than other coins.” Canada ...

Buffalo nickels are not only nostalgic coins but also potentially worth much more than five cents to rare coin collectors.