We think of money these days as anything but tangible. Venmo accounts, credit and debit cards, ACH transfers—we don’t really touch “real” money anymore. And so we can’t appreciate its ...

In the modern world, it would be almost impossible to function without having some sort of paper currency. Paper money originated as a new form of economy and was first developed by a Chinese emperor ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

When the Massachusetts colony issued its own unredeemable paper money in 1690, it was with the promise that it would soon be ...

A short history of paper money: “Kublai Khan, said Marco Polo, had ‘a more extensive command of treasure than any other sovereign in the universe’. There were no jangling pockets of coins in Kanbalu.