Election results: Democrats shatter GOP strongholds in sweeping midterm victories. The most common nickel in circulation at that time was the Buffalo Nickel. With its large, Indian head profile on the ...

The rise and fall of the trillion-dollar coin wasn't the only weird numismatic news this month. It was said that the coin, a crafty re-stocking of the Treasury to escape the debt-ceiling crisis, would ...

Adam Leech, who owns Leechpit, a vintage clothing and collectibles store in Colorado Springs, has been obsessed for years by an unusual folk art form called hobo nickels. Starting with buffalo nickels ...

Here’s some food for thought: Hobos are shrewd capitalists. At least, as Adam Leech explains it, those who carved hobo nickels in the early 20th century were. Hobo nickels — coins whose bas-reliefs ...

Time ran out last week for Adam Leech on Kickstarter.com. The Colorado Springs entrepreneur known for his vintage clothing and collectibles store, Leechpit, had been trying to raise a large sum of ...

The following is a transcript of the video. Booby traps and secret levers are hidden in these coins. Roman Booteen makes hobo nickels, or carved coins. He takes it to the next level by adding hidden ...

Hobo nickel art refers to the medium of carving sculptures from small denomination coins. Art and culture blog This is Colossal recently stumbled upon Barcelona-based artist Paolo Curcio, whose coins ...

The chisel slipped, injuring one of his hands. And the work of Bo Hughes, one of the best-known hobo nickel carvers, was never the same. The Great Depression largely defined the hobo nickel phenomenon ...