COIN TRIVIA
DID YOU KNOW????
Remember, when you purchase a coin, you also receive a piece of history, and given as a gift, it is always worth something.
- That the Washington quarter was the first clad coin to be released to circulation.(Nov. 1, 1965)
- The New Orleans Mint was the first to strike quarter dollars. Liberty Seated quarter dollars were struck in 1840.
- The Law of April 2, 1792, established the dollar as the "unit" of the U.S. decimal system of coinage.
- The first commemorative coin of record was issued by Anaxilas of Rhegium in 480 B.C. to commemorate his chariot victory at the Elis Olympic Games.
- No gold coins are held by the Treasury Department. All gold held by the government is in the form of gold bullion.
- Rutherford County, North Carolina, supplied most of the nation's gold from 1790 to 1840.
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