MetaFilter posts tagged with money and coin

Make Your Own Coin

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:39:41 -0800

Online coin generator. Sure, it's in German, but you can figure it out.

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:11:00 -0800

Fake money 2000 years ago

riffola — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:14:47 -0800

Great fakers scammed ancient Italy. An ingenious counterfeit-coin scam has been rumbled by scientists in Italy. But no one is going to jail, because the forgers lived more than 2,000 years ago.

DuPoint stolen coin collection.

stbalbach — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:53:10 -0800

For 36 years, Harold Gray has been on an extraordinary mission -- to recover what may be the most famous stolen coin collection in the United States. Since October 1967, when five hooded gunmen invaded the Coconut Grove estate of chemical empire heir Willis Harrington duPont, binding the family with silk neckties and stealing the valuable coin collection from duPont's safe, Gray has been on the case. ''We remain,'' he says today, ``in hot pursuit.''

sixfoot6 — Wed, 02 Feb 2000 10:29:02 -0800

The Wire has just posted an article about the new Sacagawea dollar coin and the Federal goverment's attempts to promote it through Wal Mart and boxes of Cheerios. These days, it seems, even money wont sell itself anymore.