$1 Silver Certificate, Series 1886, depicting Martha Washington. Source: National Museum of via Wikimedia Commons. Silver mining is thought to have begun more than 5,000 years ago in what's now Turkey ...

We've all heard the old saying that a dollar doesn't buy what it used to, and that's never been more true than today. Grocery shopping has become a shocking experience from week to week as prices ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — To celebrate WFMY News 2 turning 75, we are opening the News 2 Vault. We take you back to 1968 when some people searched for silver certificates. Silver certificates had been issued ...

PORT TOWNSEND — At a glance, a 1957 one dollar silver certificate looks just like a dollar bill. Perhaps that’s why a burglar took 100 of the silver certificates from a home in the 1700 block of ...

In this age of debate about the value, or non-value, of the dollar, we've encountered a little something from the past that you probably don't see every day unless you're a currency collector -- a ...

Collectors will buy certain coins and banknotes for far more than the actual face value of the currency such as one special $1 Silver Certificate. There are a number of reasons why collectors are ...

A hardware store employee from upstate New York has wowed the internet after a customer paid with a $5 bill from 1934. Austin, 26, works at the store where they received the 88-year-old bill. "I was ...

Would you spend $2.6 million for a certificate for $1,000? A rare, century–old silver certificate bearing the likeness of 19th century politician William L. Marcy was sold to an anonymous buyer for ...

Silver certificates were a standard currency in our country for nearly 100 years. From their inception in 1878 until their final printing in 1963, silver certificates were designed to be backed by the ...