Surprising Coin Facts

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Since its inception in 1792, the U.S. Mint has produced more than 390 billion coins for circulation.

Susan B. Anthony and the American Indian guide Sacagawea are the only women honored on circulating coins — and they’re dollars at that!

The first coin to feature an African-American was the Booker T. Washington memorial half-dollar, minted from 1946 to 1951.

Lincoln beat Washington to the punch, becoming, in 1909, the first president on a circulating coin.

The life expectancy of a circulating coin is 30 years. (Paper money usually lasts only 18 months.)

Written by Erik Jackson

October 2004

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