Read more US Mint stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/17220/us-mint.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:11:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/51625/jazz-great-ellington-will-grace-dc-quarter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLate jazz legend Duke Ellington has been chosen to appear on the District of Columbia's commemorative quarter, CNN reports. The composer and performer, a DC native who died in 1975, beat out abolitionist Frederick Douglass and surveyor and astronomer Benjamin Banneker in a vote of the capital's residents. Ellington becomes...http://www.newser.com/story/51625/jazz-great-ellington-will-grace-dc-quarter.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 24 Feb 2009 6:07:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/38099/lincoln-penny-gets-a-redesign.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Mint today unveiled four new designs that will adorn the back of the Lincoln penny next year to commemorate the bicentennial of Honest Abe’s birth, CNNMoney reports. The classic portrait of the 16th president will remain on the heads side. The reverse will depict scenes from Lincoln’s life,...http://www.newser.com/story/38099/lincoln-penny-gets-a-redesign.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Sep 2008 13:40:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28250/us-rations-silver-dollars-as-investors-scoop-them-up.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagInvestors and coin collectors are hopping mad at the US Mint for placing quotas on purchasing silver dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. The price of silver has more than doubled in the last three years, and investors looking to cash in on the boom—and avoid the stock and...http://www.newser.com/story/28250/us-rations-silver-dollars-as-investors-scoop-them-up.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 May 2008 9:31:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21480/new-5-bill-debuts-today.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHonest Abe may've been a bit pasty and gaunt, but the public can now see him in a more vivid hue: The redesigned $5 bill, complete with splashes of purple designed to thwart pesky counterfeiters, is being released today. Lincoln keeps his place on the front, and his memorial on...http://www.newser.com/story/21480/new-5-bill-debuts-today.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Mar 2008 11:45:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20404/paulson-wants-to-toss-pennies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHenry Paulson sees little point in pennies and would stop their production if he could, the AP reports. “The penny is worth less than any other currency,” the Treasury Secretary said today in a radio interview. But a sea change in change isn't imminent: Paulson says he has bigger challenges...http://www.newser.com/story/20404/paulson-wants-to-toss-pennies.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 29 Feb 2008 16:15:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12735/makes-cents-final-five-state-quarters-unveiled.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 50-state quarter program will wrap up next year when quarters for the final five states will be released. The US Mint revealed their designs yesterday: Oklahoma's quarter will feature the state bird, the scissortail flycatcher, and the state flower, the Indian blanket. New Mexico's coin will be marked with...http://www.newser.com/story/12735/makes-cents-final-five-state-quarters-unveiled.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Nov 2007 3:35:40 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12007/prototype-coins-go-for-30m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn anonymous buyer spent more than $30 million on a collection of about 1,000 coins that never made it to circulation, the AP reports. The rare “pattern coins,” dated from 1792 to 1942, are trial designs the US Mint rejected before producing them for circulation. Those coins generally stay...http://www.newser.com/story/12007/prototype-coins-go-for-30m.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 18 Nov 2007 21:53:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/11935/feds-seize-ron-paul-dollars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFederal agents raided the Indiana headquarters of a so-called "sound money" group this week, seizing nearly 60,000 "Ron Paul Dollars"—copper coins bearing the likeness of the renegade Texan congressman, GOP candidate for president and sound-money advocate. The organization has more than $20 million in illegal private currency, dubbed...http://www.newser.com/story/11935/feds-seize-ron-paul-dollars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 17 Nov 2007 7:35:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/7897/feds-give-abes-5-spot-a-facelift.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen you pull out a $5 bill next spring, you'll still see Honest Abe—but you'll also see a bunch of purple and gray, some big number fives, and new watermarks and security threads. Sick of pesky counterfeiters bleaching the fiver and turning it into a C-note, the feds unveiled...http://www.newser.com/story/7897/feds-give-abes-5-spot-a-facelift.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Sep 2007 16:20:49 CDT