_Bronze_:
One-cent piece
_Nickel_:
Five-cent piece
_Silver_:
Dollar = $1.00
Half-dollar = 0.50
Quarter-dollar = 0.25
Dime = 0.10
_Gold:_
Double eagle = $20.00
Eagle = 10.00
Half eagle = 5.00
Quarter eagle = 2.50
It may be interesting to know that the word _dollar_ is supposed to have
come from _Dale_, the name of a small town where dollars were first
coined.
_Dime_ is from the French word _disme_, which means tenth.
_Cent_ comes from the Latin word _centum_, meaning hundred.
_Mill_ is also from the Latin, coming from _mille_, a thousand.
_Eagles_ were named after our national bird.
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