Margaret Johnson reports about cases of phony hundred dollar bills starting to show up at local businesses.

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.

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

This link provides all the info and photo’s with history of all the small size denominations of US Currency.

great link to fun facts about us money in general. A nice site.

Superbly good history lesson on the types of currency the US produced with detailed information and history behind each type.

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

Passed in response to the Panic of 1907 and established the National Monetary Commission, which recommended 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.

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.

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!

This article addresses the different and varying spreads of the spectrums of Rainbow Morgan dollars.

Great video by the Discovery channel about the minting of coins and a touch of historical information as well.

Fractional Reserve Banking Backed by Coin. Important acts by Congress between 1791 and 1857 regarding US coinage.

Legislative History of Gold and Silver Coins

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.

In God We Trust. Another great article on CoinLink (144 Years of In God We Trust)