When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first cent was of a woman with flowing hair, who stood for liberty. The coin was ...

Malcolm Weale was in a farmer's field with his metal detector when he unearthed a tiny and dirt-covered object ...

People of a certain generation will remember the year-long bicentennial celebration of 1976, when the United States celebrated its 200th birthday and the country was fairly drowning in bicentennial ...

President Trump said he wants the U.S. Treasury to stop making pennies. Can he do a penny drop? Does it need Congressional approval? What we know.

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Since the New Year’s violence, service workers across the French Quarter have navigated a strange dissonance, grappling with ...

Silver cares about tradition, and he hasn't spent the last 10-plus years ... wouldn't make sense in the last two minutes of ...

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday that he likes the idea of shortening games to 40 minutes by going from 12-minute quarters to 10 ... the league's 78-year history -- could have a ...

Afterward, they cleaned the coins and laid them out on the kitchen counter. Over 380 gold and silver coins sat on ... The 2,000-year-old coin collection found in Bunnik. Photo from the Netherlands ...

These were my selections Monday, when I was musing about potential All-Star reserve selections in NBA Rewind: The toughest snubs for me in the East were LaMelo Ball, the unhealthy forwards from the ...

One detail in particular stood out to NBA commissioner Adam Silver ... implementing 10-minute quarters, a person familiar with league plans told USA TODAY Sports. They were granted anonymity ...