
Four countries still use the Shilling as currency: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Somalia.

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.

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.

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.