While hitchhiking feels like a distant memory, it wasn't an uncommon practice. Transient life was particularly popular during the Great Depression, as it was many people's only means of getting around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam Leech, who owns Leechpit, a vintage clothing and collectibles store in Colorado Springs, has been obsessed for years by an unusual folk art form called hobo nickels. Starting with buffalo nickels ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rise and fall of the trillion-dollar coin wasn't the only weird numismatic news this month. It was said that the coin, a crafty re-stocking of the Treasury to escape the debt-ceiling crisis, would ...

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 ...

(MENAFNEditorial) Dubai, UAE, March 24, 2018:Corum is unveiling a new limited edition of its Coin collection: the Hobo Coins. Originally a popular art form developed by vagrants, now the hobo coin is ...

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 ...

The most common nickel in circulation at that time was the Buffalo Nickel. With its large, Indian head profile on the obverse and the wide bison on the reverse, the coin provided a perfect canvas for ...