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The First American Quarter: How the 1796 Draped Bust Quarter Beat Jefferson’s Decimal Dream

The First American Quarter: How the 1796 Draped Bust Quarter Beat Jefferson’s Decimal Dream

America’s First Quarter Was Almost Never Meant to Exist Every quarter in America’s pocket has a strange ancestor. It did not begin as the neat product of a perfect decimal system. Instead, the quarter dollar survived because Americans already... Read more.

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