If you have lots of loose change lying around, you can convert it into spendable cash. While you can search for “coin-counting machines near me” or “Coinstar near me,” there are other places to turn ...

Standing on a Chicago el platform one day in 1928, a lean, mild-mannered New Englander named Nathaniel Leverone idly started feeding coins into the vending machines and got madder by the minute. “I ...