The average bill is outfitted with tons of secret features to separate the posers from the real deal.

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The nicknames are supposed to be a tool for helping catch crooks, but it seems as if they’re really cooked up to keep special agents amused.
Here are a few women of (bank)note who made history.
Yesterday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that a woman would be replacing Alexander Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill.
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.
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.)
If you like sampling new beers or hate having money, you might want to try one of these budget-busting brews.
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.