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The Liberty nickel, often called the "V" nickel, describes a series of nickels minted between 1883 and 1912. They were the second run of 5 cent pieces to ever be created, the first being the Shield nickel minted between 1866 to 1883.  Despite ending their official mint run in 1912, 5 pieces exist which bear a 1913 date. Nobody's sure how that happened, but collectors consider them to be genuine. These nickels are worth up to $5 million dollars. In 2018 the last Liberty Nickel that hadn't already been snapped up by museums and collectors

Whether we swipe our cards, pay through paper bills or even use online net banking, most of the world’s transactions on a daily basis are through the use of currency. Indeed, money has been the lifeblood of every country’s economy throughout the world and will continue to be in the time to come!   What was the world's first currency unit?  When and where? Earlier economic transactions might have been limited to the barter system, but there was no reference against which the fairness of barter transactions could have been evaluated somehow! Between those prehistoric transactions and the modern used currency, there was an era when the whole concept of m