First commemorative coin in U.S. history: The 1892 Columbian Exposition half-dollar, marking the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Americas.
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The first U.S. cents were 100 percent copper, while today’s pennies are 95 percent zinc with a copper coating measuring only 1/2000th of an inch.
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Fun Fact of the Day
In 2015 the TSA collected $765,759.15 in loose change at airport security checkpoints across the country. They get to keep all of it.
