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	United States two-dollar bill - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		United States Notes had a legal statutory limit of $346,861,016 that could be in circulation at any one time which was not a significant amount of money at the time.
		July 1862: The first $2 bill was issued as a Legal Tender Note (United States Note) with a portrait of Alexander Hamilton; the portrait of Hamilton used was a profile view and is unlike the portrait used currently for the $10 bill.
		1869: The $2 United States Note was redesigned with the now familiar portrait of Thomas Jefferson to the left and a vignette of the United States Capitol in the center of the obverse.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/U.S._two_dollar_bill (3675 words)

	The United States Mint
		State Quarter Designs will be selected and approved by the process established by Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin on January 9, 1998, in accordance with Public Law 105-124.
		States will be honored with a reverse quarter design in the order in which such States ratified the Constitution of the United States or were admitted into the Union.
		The United States Mint is working closely with educational organizations to develop educational materials and an interactive Web site that will enable educators to bring to their classrooms the rich history of the Mint and how the 50 State Quarters™; Program honors America's union.
	www.usmint.gov /faqs/50states (2133 words)

	Silver clad U.S. coinage 10/02/2006
		The rising population drove an increase in demand for coinage and while the U.S. Mint quickly blamed collectors and speculators for the shortfall, it was soon clear businesses were hoarding coins and the greater population needed more coins for vending machines and general commerce.
		The Bicentennial coins entered circulation July 4, 1975, and 1.7 billion quarter dollars, 500 million half dollars and nearly 250 million dollars were minted throughout that year and the Bicentennial year.
		The Bicentennial coinage became the last silver clad Kennedy half dollars and Eisenhower dollars, and the nation hasn't returned to the 40 percent silver alloy for coinage since.
	www.coinworld.com /news/100106/BW_1002.asp (2764 words)

	U.S. Mint Guidelines and South Dakota Narritives.
		State designs are displayed on the reverse (tails) of the quarters, while the obverse (heads) of the quarters continue to display the familiar image of George Washington.
		Consistent with the authorizing legislation, the states are encouraged to submit designs that promote the diffusion of knowledge among the youth of the United States about the state, its history and geography, and the rich diversity of our national heritage.
		The United States Mint will initiate the formal state design process by contacting the state governor approximately 24 months prior to the beginning of the year in which the state will be honored.
	www.sdquarter.com /inlet/USMint.htm (1562 words)

	U.S. Treasury - FAQs: Portraits&Designs of Coins
		The practice was inaugurated in the United States by an Act of March 3, 1835, which established the first branch mints in this country.
		As required by law, all United States coins are currently dated with the year of their issuance or minting.
		It is very rare for the United States Mint to produced double-headed coins, because coins are struck on both sides simultaneously with two different dies of different physical dimensions.
	www.ustreas.gov /education/faq/coins/portraits.html (2018 words)

	American Bicentennial 07/4/05
		The idea for special circulating coinage came as early as a decade before the Bicentennial in the coin collecting community and with the creation in 1966 of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.
		After President Richard Nixon signed the Bicentennial Coinage Act Oct. 18, 1973, the Mint announced a national design competition, with a $5,000 prize for each of three designs to be used on the reverse of the quarter dollar, half dollar and dollar.
		The Bicentennial quarter dollars are findable in circulation but seen less and less often, but the large dollars with Eisenhower on the obverse are rarely available at most banks.
	www.coinworld.com /news/070405/BW_0704.asp (1886 words)

	FAQs
		Many times, even the Treasury Department and the United States Mint use the term penny because that is what is normally referred to in general use by the public.
		As the United States Mint produces the coins that Congress mandates, it does not have the authority to abolish a unit of currency.
		So in 1866, United States Mint officials decided to make it larger by changing its content from silver and copper to a combination of copper and nickelâ”and the modern nickel was born.
	tokyo.usembassy.gov /e/jusa/jusa-faq-coins.html (1480 words)

	United States Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/united_states_index (1280 words)

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	Acidophilus Related Terms
		Throughout the $2 bill's Pre-1928 life as a large-sized note, it was issued as a United States Note, Silver Certificate, Treasury or 'Coin' Note, and a Federal Reserve Bank Note.
		The $2 bill initially wasn't reassigned to the Federal Reserve Note class of United States currency and was thus discontinued; the Treasury Department cited the $2 bill's low use and unpopularity as the reason for not resuming use of the denomination.
		The perceived rarity of a $2 bill can be attributed to its low printing numbers that sharply dropped beginning in the late 1950s when the $2 bill was a United States Note and recently the sporadic printings of still relatively low numbers as a Federal Reserve Note.
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=United_States_two-dollar_bill (3923 words)

	United States Commemorative Coin - Gurupedia
		Commemorative coinage of the United States consists of coins that have been minted to commemorate a particular event, person or organization.
		In 1975 and 1976, The Washington Quarter was also used to commemorate the United States Bicentennial with a circulating commemorative.
		More recently, the Statehood Quarter program began in 1999 with five different circulating commemoratives each year with reverses for each of the states in the United States in the order of their admission into the union.
	www.gurupedia.com /u/un/united_states_commemorative_coin.htm (243 words)

	Bicentennial Coins Are Easy To Acquire - EncycloMedia
		Preparations for celebration of the bicentennial of United States independence began on July 4, 1966, with the passage of Senate Joint Resolution 162, which launched the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.
		Plans for a special bicentennial coinage began in 1970 when the ARBC formed a subcommittee called the Coins and Medals Advisory Panel.
		Coinage of quarters, halves and dollars with traditional designs was halted during the years 1975 and 1976, and only the dual-dated (1776-1976) Bicentennial coins were made during that time.
	www.encyclomedia.com /bicentennial_coins_are_easy_to_acquire.html (761 words)

	God on Our Coins
		It was the marriage of state and church that compelled many of the settlers and immigrants to this country to flee their native lands and seek a country where religion was not an integral part of the government.
		All other coins shall be inscribed with the year of the coinage or issuance unless the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to prevent or alleviate a shortage of coins of any denomination, directs that coins of that denomination continue to be inscribed with the last preceding year inscribed on coins of the denomination.
		When the government of the United States sees fit to place the value of patriotism or adherence to constitutional principles predominantly in a religious context, whether on coins or in the form of a pledge, an oath, or an invocation, it serves to weaken the bonds that hold all citizens of this country in common.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/jon_murray/coins.html (3861 words)

	United States coinage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		United States coinage was first minted by the new republic in 1792.
		: In 1975 and 1976 bicentennial coinage was minted.
		The sizes of the dime, quarter and half dollar are holdovers from before 1965 when they were made from 90% silver and 10% copper; their sizes thus depended upon the amount of silver needed to equal the face value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_coinage (977 words)

	Lewis and Clark Bicentennial - Partner Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Created on April 2, 1792, the United States Mint has as its primary mission the production of an adequate volume of circulating coinage for the Nation to conduct its trade and commerce, with recent circulating coin production varying between 14 and 20 billion coins annually.
		Workers at the United States Mint, at that time located solely in Philadelphia, produced the medals during noon hours and at night, so as not to interfere with the minting of coins for commerce.
		The United States Mint is proud to be an integral and vital part of the Lewis and Clark Bi-Centennial Commemoration.
	webteam.nbc.gov /lc-new/partner.cfm (729 words)

	United States Commemorative Coin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Most students of US commemorative coinage acknowledge break between 1954 and 1982 by classifying those minted from 1892 -1954 as Early Commemoratives and those minted since 1982 as Commemoratives.
		In 1932 the 200th anniversary of the birth George Washington the mint produced a circulating commemorative Washington Quarter.
		More recently the Statehood Quarter program began in 1999 with five different circulating commemoratives each with reverses for each of the states the United States in the order of admission into the union.
	www.freeglossary.com /United_States_Commemorative_Coin (496 words)

	Stillwater Palladium : Coins that are made from palladium metal
		The Isle of Man issued the United States Constitution Bicentennial commemorative palladium coin which can be found at Panda America.
		Curiously, one of the earliest coin uses of native platinum (before palladium was identified and separated from the naturally-occurring metal) was in the Spanish colonies of South America, where it was used to make counterfeit gold coins.
		1987 was a popular year for palladium bullion; the Isle of Man, an island kingdom in the Irish Sea, issued a palladium coin in commeroration of the bicentennial of the United States’ Constitution and featuring Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and and on the reverse are 11 U.S. presidents encircling the Statue of Liberty.
	www.stillwaterpalladium.com /coinage.html (515 words)

	minterrornews.com
		Demand during the early to mid 1940’s pushed coinage requests to all time highs as devastated World War II participant countries in the midst of rebuilding required coinage to be produced in order for their respective economies to recover in the post war era.
		Furthermore, the Director of the Mint stated that the U.S. Treasury Department considered the discs to be gold bullion and not coinage, and as such, were not authorized to be imported or held in the United States under the 1934 Gold Reserve Act.
		Planchets for precious metal bullion coinage is currently provided by several of the firms that supply bullion rounds to collectors and investors with metals obtained from the former silver strategic stockpile (currently depleted as of the publishing of this article) or the open market as in the case of platinum coinage.
	minterrornews.com /news-5-13-03-foreigners_in_the_mint.html (6142 words)

	The Quarter Gets Changed
		Anyone may submit a design for their state quarter, and many states have turned to students, artists, historians, and other residents with ideas.
		State flora and fauna are in, but state flags and seals are out.
		The quarter is the most popular coin in circulation today, and the state quarters are the first change in American coinage since the bicentennial quarter was released in 1976.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/quarters1.html (656 words)

	God on our Coins
		The importance of the doctrine of separation of state and church that compelled many of the settlers and immigrants to this country to fell their native lands and seek a country where religion was not an integral part of the government.
		United States," 432 F.2d 242 (1970) in the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and "Madalyn Murray O'Hair, et al.
		Law 36 U.S.C. 186, titled "National Motto," states in its entirety: "The national motto of the United States is declared to be 'In God We Trust.' This law, (1) has no clear secular purpose, (2) advances religion, and (3) entangles government with religion excessively, thereby failing all three tests for constitutionality under the Establishment Clause.
	www.atheists.org /public.square/coins.html (3885 words)

	United States Mint Unveils 2004 Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Design
		Monticello, VA – United States Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore today announced the unveiling of the design for the 2004 Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemorative Silver Dollar coin as part of the first of 15 “Signature Events” to be held across the country through 2006 to mark the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s expedition.
		In fiscal year 2002, the United States Mint manufactured approximately 15 billion coins and generated revenue of $1.8 billion.
		With facilities in five states and the District of Columbia, the United States Mint has customers in 54 countries and is the world’s 30th largest online retailer.
	www.coinresource.com /pr_mint/pr_2003/LewisAndClarkCommemDesign.htm (417 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Quarter (United States coin)
		A quarter is a coin worth one-quarter of a United States dollar, or 25 cents.
		It is sometimes referred to as two bits because two bits of a Spanish piece of eight coin, which was often used in the early years of the United States, made up a quarter of that coin's value.
		The standard Washington quarter is scheduled for return in 2009, unless the U.S. Congress acts to extend the Statehood Quarter program or changes the design.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Quarter_(United_States_coin) (343 words)

	Half dollar (United States coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Half Dollar of the United States, sometimes known as the fifty-cent piece, has been produced nearly every year since the inception of the United States Mint in 1794.
		The coinage of 1804 was struck with dies from 1803, accounting for the reason.
		Rolls of half dollars are kept on hand in cardrooms in the United States for games requiring 50-cent antes or bring-in bets, or where the house collects a rake in increments of 50 cents (usually in low-limit seven-card stud and its variants).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_half_dollar_coin (715 words)

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