You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Honest Money vs. Government MoneyView the full contextView the direct parentmyjob (70)in Economics • 17 days ago I guess I would rather carry one piece of eight instead of a 1,000 quarters, so you are right.
Yup. The quarter is still called "two bits" sometimes in reference to being two eighths (one quarter) of a Spanish Milled Dollar. They literally used to cut silver coins into halves, quarters, and eighths to make change.
Yes, they did, IDK but it looks like some of my smaller ones were cut.