A man holds a handful of $1 coins in Quito, Ecuador. While the coins are often shunned in the United States, theye prized in Ecuador. (Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/TNS) QUITO, Ecuador — Busy selling fruits ...

WASHINGTON -- Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark find their way to the Pacific Ocean, but she's having trouble finding her own way into the nation's cash registers. The image of the Shoshone Indian, ...

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Busy selling fruits and vegetables on a recent weekday, Luzmila Mita dug into her apron and pulled out a fistful of coins embossed with the image of a Native American woman with a baby strapped to her ...

When most people envision Sacagawea, they think of her portrait on the golden dollar coin. They’re thinking of a Fort Hall resident. Randy’L Teton, the spokeswoman for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, ...

That was a great op-ed column by Wally Ely on Dec. 17. I have to admit that I’m also more than a little disappointed that the Sacagawea dollar coin never seemed to catch on. I think the majority of ...

IDAHO FALLS — When most people envision Sacagawea, they think of her portrait on the golden dollar coin. They’re thinking of a Fort Hall resident. Randy’L Teton, the spokeswoman for the ...

If you are a rare coin collector, you know that it’s not always the perfect coins that are the most valuable. There are many criteria that make a coin worth lots of money in today’s currency, as well ...

It's been a year since the new dollar coin came out, and, so far, they are more tucked away than the baby in Sacagawea's sling. The U.S. Mint has made 1 billion of them. The Federal Reserve Bank has ...

Dear Mr. Berko: I read your column about the Quaker Oats land certificates and wish I had kept mine. One of the guys at the shop where I work (we all read and discuss your column) seems to remember ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired 17 items from sculptor Glenna Goodacre from her successful commission to design the Sacagawea dollar coin released in 2000.