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Money and Banks Coins

MATH

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Money and Banks

Coins

By Dana Meachen Rau

Reading consultant: Susan Nations, M. Ed. , author/literacy coach/consultant

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rau, Dana Meachen, 1971 Coins / by Dana Meachen Rau. p. cm. ( Money and banks) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978-1-4339-3377-6 ( lib. bdg. ) ISBN: 978-1-4339-3378-3 ( softcover) ISBN: 978-1-4339-3379-0 ( 6-pack) Coins United States Juvenile literature. I. Title. II. Series. CJ1830. R38 2005 40420973 dc22 2005042248

New edition published 2010 by Gareth Stevens Publishing East 14th Street, Suite New York, NY 10003

New text and images this edition copyright 2010 Gareth Stevens Publishing

Original edition published 2006 by Weekly Reader Books

An imprint of Gareth Stevens Publishing

Original edition text and images copyright 2006 Gareth Stevens Publishing

Art direction: Haley Harasymiw, Tammy West Page layout: Daniel Hosek, Dave Kowalski Editorial direction: Kerri ODonnell, Barbara Kiely Miller

Photo credits: Cover, title page, pp. 14, Shutterstock. com; pp. 4, 11, Gregg Andersen; pp. ( penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar) , 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, Diane Laska-Swanke; p. ( golden dollar) , courtesy Wikimedia Commons; pp. 8, 9, Dave Kowalski/ Weekly Reader Early Learning Library.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.

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Table of Contents

So Many Coins!

How Coins Are Made

Coins Up Close

Coin Collecting

Math Connection: What Is It Worth?

Glossary

For More Information

Index

Boldface words appear in the glossary

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So Many Coins!

Coins make a clinking sound when you drop them into a piggy bank. Coins are a type of currency. Currency is the kind of money people use. In the United States, we use dollars as our currency. One dollar is made up of one hundred cents. Coins are cents.

Some children save their coins in a piggy bank.

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Coins are made in six different amounts. A penny is worth one cent. A nickel is worth ve cents. A dime is worth ten cents. A quarter is worth twenty-ve cents. A half-dollar is worth fty cents. A golden dollar is worth one dollar. In 2007, the U.S. government began making dollar coins showing the U.S. presidents.

penny nickel dime

quarter half-dollar golden dollar

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A penny has a brownish color. Nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars look silver. The golden dollar looks gold. Coins are made of mixtures of metals called alloys. The alloys used to make coins are copper, zinc, and nickel.

Most U.S. coins are a silver color.

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How Coins Are Made

Coins are made by the United States Mint. The word mint means to make coins. The United States Mint makes between sixty-ve million and eighty million coins every day! Many machines are needed to make coins.

The U.S. Mint makes coins in Denver and Philadelphia (above). You can visit the U.S. Mint to see how coins are made.

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First, a at sheet of metal is fed into a machine called a blanking press. The blanking press works like a cookie cutter. It cuts small, coin- sized circles out of the metal. These circles are called blanks. Blanks are the size and shape of coins, but there are no pictures on them.

A blanking press cuts coin-sized circles out of metal sheets.

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The blanks are heated and cleaned. Then they are put into an upsetting machine. This machine raises the edges of the blanks. The higher edges of the coins keep them from wearing out too quickly.

An upsetting machine puts a raised edge around each blank.

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The blanks then go into a machine called a coining press. The coining press stamps a picture on each side of the blank. Then an inspector checks each coin to make sure it is perfect. The new coins are counted, then poured into bags. The bags are sent to banks around the country.

A coining press can make coins every minute. Thats 45,000 coins an hour!

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Coins Up Close

Have you ever ipped a coin to help you make a choice? The front of a coin is called heads. The back of a coin is called tails. If the coin lands heads up, you might choose chocolate ice cream. If it lands tails up, you might choose vanilla.

Flipping a coin can help you make a choice.

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Look closely at a coin. The front sides of most coins have portraits, or pictures, of U.S. presidents on them. The penny has a portrait of Abraham Lincoln on it. The nickel, dime, quarter, and half-dollar have presidents on them, too. The golden dollar has a portrait of Sacagawea. She was a Native American woman who helped explorers in early America. The new presidential dollar coins each show one U.S. president.

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