A man holds a handful of $1 coins in Quito, Ecuador. While the coins are often shunned in the United States, theye prized in Ecuador. (Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/TNS) QUITO, Ecuador — Busy selling fruits ...

The decision on whether to spend or save coins is usually pretty simple. In nearly all cases, if you don’t spend them, then they’re just a pile of metal gathering dust. But there are rare instances ...

WASHINGTON -- Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark find their way to the Pacific Ocean, but she's having trouble finding her own way into the nation's cash registers. The image of the Shoshone Indian, ...

The first coin to feature a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar can also be quite valuable. It's worth taking a quick look through your dollar coins to see if you have one of these beauties. While not ...

It's been a year since the new dollar coin came out, and, so far, they are more tucked away than the baby in Sacagawea's sling. The U.S. Mint has made 1 billion of them. The Federal Reserve Bank has ...

That was a great op-ed column by Wally Ely on Dec. 17. I have to admit that I’m also more than a little disappointed that the Sacagawea dollar coin never seemed to catch on. I think the majority of ...

The 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar coin marked a bold shift in U.S. currency—introducing the first coin to feature a real woman and replacing the bulky Eisenhower dollar with a smaller, modern design.