The modern American nickel wasn’t created until 1866 ... 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 “half-dime ...

The Indicator From Planet Money, have more. WAILIN WONG, BYLINE: The notion of a trillion-dollar platinum coin traces back to a now-defunct blog focused on Modern Monetary Theory. This is a branch ...

Two other 1913 Liberty Head nickels are in museums: the McDermott specimen at the American Numismatic Association Money Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado and the Norweb specimen at the ...

Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here and on TikTok ... and comes impressively close to the modern economy we have today, before it all falls apart. We'll have summer school ...

The demise of the Canadian five-cent coin bearing the ... But inflation is not a modern invention. According to Brain Gettler, author of Colonialism's Currency: Money, State, and First Nations ...