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Picking through mutilated currency
Washington, D.C.

The Mutilated Currency Division

An obscure public service from the U.S. government that redeems burnt, moldy, and soiled old greenbacks.
Brian Sonia-Wallace and his typewriter, working at UCLA in April.
literature

Confessions of a Poet-for-Hire

Brian Sonia-Wallace is about to become the first-ever Writer-in-Residence at the Mall of America. And this isn't the first time he's snagged a corporate sponsorship.
Cara Giaimo May 30, 2017
Rubles and rubles and rubles.
abandoned

Found: A Billion Rubles Dumped at an Abandoned Mining Operation

After the fall of communism, the Russian government needed to get rid of a lot of Soviet cash.
Sarah Laskow May 25, 2017
New York, New York

WPA Murals of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.
money

Found: A Lost Wallet, 13 Years Later

Dean McAuley thinks it went missing on a scuba-diving trip.
Erik Shilling May 2, 2017
mystery

Found: Mystery Safe Unopened for 40 Years

Who leaves a mystery safe unopened??
Sarah Laskow April 28, 2017
The life of a poker-playing expat can be sweet—but how sustainable is it?
games

Online Poker Players Are Exiled in Paradise

When will the party end for online poker's refugees?
Sarah Laskow April 25, 2017
The corrupt Louisiana State Lottery company, which issued this 1889 ticket (shown front and back), gave lotteries a bad name.
money

Colonial America Was Built on Lottery Revenue

Roads, colleges, war—all funded by lottery tickets.
Sarah Laskow April 21, 2017
The faded property marker
New York, New York

New York Produce Exchange Property Marker

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.
hotels

Motel Honors 16-Year-Old Coupon

The 10th night was finally free.
Cara Giaimo April 18, 2017
money

A 2-Cent Check Mystery

A Massachusetts retiree has no idea why he got a strange payment from the feds.
Erik Shilling April 13, 2017
Treasury Street.
St. Augustine, Florida

Treasury Street

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Barbara and Douglas Fink.
money

When You Win the Lottery for the Third Time

A Canadian couple has gotten lucky over the years.
Erik Shilling April 6, 2017
A woman smoking outside a cafe in Paris.
government

The French Government Is About to Destroy $106,000,000 Worth of Cigarettes

Now we know who to bum a smoke from.
Cara Giaimo April 4, 2017
Permanently Closed
$75,000 in old currency gets wheelbarrowed around Treasury
Washington, D.C.

Treasury Department Laundry

Literal "money laundering."
New York, New York

Fearless Girl Statue

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
animals

Found: A Turtle With 915 Coins in Its Belly

His name means "piggy bank."
Sarah Laskow March 6, 2017
Busingen on the shore of the Rhine
Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany

Büsingen Enclave

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.