Whatever the etymology, the large flow of German migrants to the US in the 19th century helped popularise the way we see piggy banks today. “Money boxes in the shape of pigs are known much ...

Today everyone has seen some form of a piggy bank, even if it isn’t in the form of a farm animal. They sit on multiple ...

Believe it or not, the basic piggy bank used to be far more than just a childhood relic. The concept of stashing cash in hollowed objects has been around for nearly six centuries – before banks ...