But a second look from the GAO flips that coin argument on its head. Analysts now say the government would lose between $611 million and $2.6 billion over 30 years by phasing out the dollar bill ...

You don't need to be a coin collector to know that certain nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars and the like are worth serious cash -- well beyond their face value. The rarer a coin is, the ...

Replacing the U.S. $1 note with a coin could save the government around $5.5 billion over 30 years, according to a new report. The GAO says Canada and Britain figured out how to encourage people ...

(Separately, the report finds that each coin costs 33 cents to produce, versus about five cents for a $1 bill). Beyond the government, the costs could be even greater.

The 14th amendment and a trillion dollar coin. The trillion-dollar coin idea, which first originated in the 1990s, stems from a section of the U.S. code that authorizes new platinum coins with the ...