The chisel slipped, injuring one of his hands. And the work of Bo Hughes, one of the best-known hobo nickel carvers, was never the same. The Great Depression largely defined the hobo nickel phenomenon ...

Here’s some food for thought: Hobos are shrewd capitalists. At least, as Adam Leech explains it, those who carved hobo nickels in the early 20th century were. Hobo nickels — coins whose bas-reliefs ...

IN 2003, Candace DeMarco Kagin of Tiburon was walking through a coin show when she saw a nickel carved with the image of a golf caddy wearing a long, cutaway coat. It turned out the coin was an ...

Imagine an alternate world where our coins are graced not by unsmiling presidents but Frankenstein, ET, skulls, pirates—hell, even a butt. That’s the funny, fanciful world of Italian artist Paolo ...

2013 was the 100th anniversary of the Buffalo Nickel, minted in the U.S. between 1913 and 1938. The coin, which depicts the head of an native American indian, became an art medium–people took to ...

A viral video of ornately engraved coins with elaborate mechanical movements is drawing renewed attention to an artist working in a medium with a long folk tradition. Russian artist and master ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about hobos riding the rails on both sides of the Ohio River and those who, like me, saw them first hand. That mention brought back some other memories for Mim Bizic of Moon ...

Things you can buy with a nickel: A sip of Starbucks coffee. A gumball, maybe. Things you can buy with a 1913 Liberty Head nickel: A SoHo loft. A gumball, maybe. Spending-wise, the nickel doesn’t earn ...

The American Numismatic Association Money Museum, 818 N. Cascade Ave. in Colorado Springs, is wrapping up National Coin Week on Saturday with a 100 Years of the Buffalo Nickel celebration and open ...

MARIN COUNTY — In 2003, Candace DeMarco Kagin of Tiburon was walking through a coin show when she saw a nickel carved with the image of a golf caddy wearing a long, cutaway coat. It turned out the ...