From Paul Revere to modern anti-counterfeiting tech, Crane Currency’s long-standing role in supplying U.S. bank note paper highlights why competition in this highly controlled space remains elusive.

At the time the Civil War began in 1861, the United States government did not print paper money; it only minted coins. As a historian of the American Civil War, I study how the Confederate government ...

Paper has already lost ground to plastic cards and smartphone apps, and now the country's core payment infrastructure is being reengineered around that reality. As the Federal Reserve weighs whether ...

With Black historical icon Harriet Tubman slated to appear on the $20 bill by 2030, it got us thinking. Are there prominent Latinos or Latinas who could someday appear on paper money? Who are they, ...

Most Americans wouldn’t recognize some of the earliest U.S. currency that the country’s citizens used (or, in many cases, avoided because it was considered worthless paper). Here’s a selection from ...