Who would have thought that the dollar bills in your wallet could be worth more than their face value? Yes, you read that right. Some paper money, specifically those with fancy serial numbers, are ...

It’s hard to avoid hassle — or fraud — when you’re required to pay with paper and ink. Here’s why checks persist and why some people don’t mind. By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber read several hundred tips from ...

If you're dealing with debt collection, pay close attention to the rules relating to direct deposit of Social Security benefits. Banks look back to see if federal benefits have been directly deposited ...

US founding father Benjamin Franklin developed paper money innovations long before historians previously thought such methods were in use – and they may have even had use as anti-counterfeiting ...

VTDigger runs on reader support. Help us reach our goal by Dec. 31. Branches of the Vermont State Bank issued their own currency during the early 1800s, but ran into trouble when they printed far more ...

What is money? Jacob Goldstein, who co-hosts NPR's Planet Money, has spent years fixated on that question. In his new book, "Money: The True Story Of A Made-Up Thing," he writes that money is a shared ...