DENVER –Some folks will do anything to make a quick buck. In Denver, hundreds of people lined up outside the U.S. Mint on Tuesday looking to strike gold by buying gold. The gold was actually a gold ...

Making cents just doesn’t make sense anymore. The cost to produce both pennies and nickels is now more than double what each of those coins is actually worth, thanks to inflation, which is driving up ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — If you love the Mile High ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) – From the outside, the Denver ...

Hundreds of people lined up at dawn Tuesday for a chance to buy one of 500 50th Anniversary Kennedy Half-Dollar Gold Proof Sets at the Denver Mint. Some were there for the pleasure of owning a coin ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Coin dealers paid stand-ins, including the homeless, to wait in line at the Denver Mint Tuesday morning to snag freshly minted gold half-dollars. The mint began selling gold 24-karat ...

DENVER—Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle led a delegation to the Denver Mint for the striking of the first of that state’s commemorative quarters—and the last in a 10-year series commemorating the 50 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This is the fourth installment in a series of articles about the United States mints. In the 1850s in the United States, when many people thought of the Wild West, they thought of gold. Tales of ...

DENVER — The U.S. Mint in Denver is going green. Xcel Energy said Tuesday that the Mint, which produces coins, will start getting all its electricity from wind power. The federal facility will buy its ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Visitors from out of town make the U.S. Mint in Denver one of the city's most popular tourist attractions, but sometimes those of us who live here seem to miss what's in our own back ...