Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the winter of 1932 the town of Hawarden in the US state of Iowa began printing and distributing scrip ...

LONG BRANCH - A grieving coin collector said he found a city scrip note from the Great Depression while rooting through a box given to him by a client. "There was really nothing else exceptional in ...

When does a hobby become an obsession? Ask Portsmouth-born CPA, Kevin Lafond, whose childhood penny collection multiplied into a lifetime fascination with paper money. And not just the spendable kind.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...