How Money is Made Part 4- This wonderful video from Modern Marvels illustrates how our nation's currency and coins are made. This section features our nation's currency.

How Money is Made Part 5- This wonderful video from Modern Marvels illustrates how our nation's currency and coins are made. This section features our nation's currency.

Bleaching Ink ($5 bills into $100 bills) - Margaret Johnson reports about cases of phony hundred dollar bills starting to show up at local businesses.  

Fine Print on a $20 Bill - 20 Dollar Bill Scanned for educational purposes. This video was made to show some of the details that went into making the 20 dollar bill.

Documentary of The $1 Bill - The One Dollar Bill is a mini-documentary on the historic symbols on the U.S. one dollar bill. This is an exceptionally well put together video analyzing the symbols that appear on the $1 Bill.

41 Money Facts That Will Blow You Away - This is an awesome link for those who want to know the 41 facts that “will blow you away”. It funny and good info on all money coins and currency.

History of U.S. Currency - This link provides the History of all US currency from Colonial to present day small size bills.

BEP Large Denomination Notes - This link provides all you need to know about denominations from $500 to $100,000 with photo’s and history.

BEP Small Denomination Notes - This link provides all the info and photo’s with history of all the small size denominations of US Currency.

FactMonster Facts About U.S. Money - great link to fun facts about us money in general. A nice site.

Federal Reserve Board FAQ's - This is a very nice website covering the high points of the Federal Reserve and the coins and currency it produces.

How Currency Gets into Circulation - By the New York Fed. This is a very detailed article about how the Fed operates and the facts behind the decisions on how much currency to produce. It also contains many facts about circulating US currency.

Legal Tender Status of Notes - FAQ's by the US Treasury about what our currency represents and why it is the most trusted currency in the world. 

Six Kinds of US Paper Currency - Superbly good history lesson on the types of currency the US produced with detailed information and history behind each type.

The National Banking Act of 1863 - United States federal law that established a system of national charters for banks. It encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, the so-called National Bank Notes. Another valuable link is this article on Wikipedia.

Coinage Act of 1873 - enacted by the United States Congress in 1873 and embraced the gold standard and de-monetized silver.

Aldrich–Vreeland Act of 1908 - Passed in response to the Panic of 1907 and established the National Monetary Commission, which recommended the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 - Wikipedia article about the birth of the Federal Reserve. Excellent information about the legislative history and criticism of the Federal Reserve.

National Banknotes Database - The "U.S. National Bank Notes, 1864-1935" database was assembled by Franklin Noll as part of a study on National Bank note production by the Historical Resource Center of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. As such, much of the data relates to production; though issuance, redemption, and circulation figures have also been gathered in an effort to help explain variations in production. I have included what is in the excel and word documents below for ease of use because not everybody has Microsoft Office. The original can be found here: It is available here: http://eh.net/databases/usnationalbanknotes

Monster Toned Rainbow Morgan Dollars - View the largest gallery of high-end and Monster rainbow toned Morgan dollars, information on how to tell natural vs. artificial toning, learn to price toned Morgans, view auction results of rainbow Morgans, and what characteristics to look for in high-end toned rainbow Morgan dollars.

Physics of the Toning Progression of Rainbow Morgans - This article by Doug Kurz delves into the physics of Thin Film Interference and how the human eye perceives the colors radiating off the surface of a nicely patinated Toned Morgan dollar. Put your thinking caps on and pull out those old high-school physics textbooks and enjoy!

Hello Yellow (Analysis and examples of the Toning Spectrums) - This article addresses the different and varying spreads of the  spectrums of Rainbow Morgan dollars.

Sunnywood Toning Classification System - Doug Kurz has developed a classification system for Toned Morgans based on the spectrum produced by the thin-film interference phenomenon caused by the thickness of the silver-sulfide film (patination) on Toned Morgans. While not widely used by toned coin enthusiasts, this classification system is extremely helpful in understanding the toning progression of Rainbow Morgan dollars. It is also a useful chart to determine if your coin is artificial by not following the proper color progression.

How Money is Made Part 1- This wonderful video from Modern Marvels illustrates how our nation's currency and coins are made. History

How Money is Made Part 2- This wonderful video from Modern Marvels illustrates how our nation's currency and coins are made.  Coins

How Money is Made Part 3- This wonderful video from Modern Marvels illustrates how our nation's currency and coins are made. Coins

Artificial Toning via Anodizing Video - Make Silver Different Colors by Anodizing by Nurdrage. This is a good video experimenting with chemicals and electricity to artificially tone silver.

Rare 1969-S Double Die Penny Video - Worthpoint.com at the Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention.

How Coins are Minted Video - Great video by the Discovery channel about the minting of coins and a touch of historical information as well.

Important Dates in the Monetary History of the United States, Part V, 1791-1857 – Fractional Reserve Banking Backed by Coin. Important acts by Congress between 1791 and 1857 regarding US coinage.

Coinage Acts of The United States Congress - Legislative History of Gold and Silver Coins

Coinage Act of 1792 - passed by the United States Congress on April 2, 1792, established the United States Mint and regulated the coinage of the United States. The long title of the legislation is An act establishing a mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States. This act established the dollar as the unit of money in the United States, declared it to be lawful tender, and created a decimal system for U.S. currency.

Coinage Act of 1834 - In order to bring the gold price into line with the silver price, the Congress slightly revised the ratio of gold to the dollar. As silver remained unchanged, this has slightly altered the gold to silver ratio established in the Coinage Act of 1792 (15 to 1). The new ratio was approximately 16 to 1.

Coinage Act of 1864 - In God We Trust. Another great article on CoinLink (144 Years of In God We Trust)

Gold Confiscation of April 5th, 1933 - I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section to do hereby prohibit the hoarding gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations....