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 Booker T. Washington Memorial Half Dollar was the first coin to feature an African-American.
- That the decimal currency system which we use today was first proposed by Thomas Jefferson.
- That the Philadelphia Mint mark (P) appears on all of the coins minted there except the Lincoln cent.
- That Calvin Coolidge was the first President to have his picture appear on a coin while he was still living.
- That liberty, peace, and strength and independence are represented on the Roosevelt dime by the torch, the olive branch, and the oak branch.
- That because of the Coinage Act of 1965, mint marks were not put on coins in 1965, 1966, or 1967.
- That before we had a national Mint, "currency" included livestock, produce, wampum, and foreign and colonial money.
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