It was signed, “NORTON I, Emperor of the United States”. The proclamation of ‘Emperor Norton’ as seen in The San Francisco Evening Bulletin on September 17, 1859 [Courtesy of the San ...

On the morning of September 17, 1859, a “well-dressed and serious ... and desire of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of ...

Native crystalline gold in quartz specimen from Timmins, Ontario – Canada's richest gold region, the city having been founded in 1911 – containing ...

*Dedicated to the memory of Elchanan Kalmanson, 42 years of age and a father of five from the Judean Hills community of ...

You don’t need to be a coin collector to have piggy banks stashed ... Here are a few key takeaways: The United States Mint only releases a certain amount of pennies annually.

On a family visit to Guangzhou, China, writer Bonnie Tsui discovers that she, like the city, is ever evolving.

And she would listen to their stories, many of them about Dinah Miller, who had been brought to the United States in a slave ship in 1859 ... to about a nickel. When Rentz died in 1932, his ...

For a more traditional celebration, the Fourth of July in Virginia City features one of Nevada’s most authentic small-town ...

The mint set noon EDT on Thursday (May 15) as its T-0 for the launch of Florida's dollar celebrating the retired spacecraft.

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.