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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Imagine an alternate world where our coins are graced not by unsmiling presidents but Frankenstein, ET, skulls, pirates—hell, even a butt. That’s the funny, fanciful world of Italian artist Paolo ...