Hello, This week, due to the lack of questions and the lack of sleep, I am too tired to come up with something original. Therefore, I am going to continue with the list that I use whenever I don't get questions or can't think of an original idea for the column.

You see, it's harder for people like Roseanne, from Horsin' Around with Roseanne,” and me to figure out ideas for columns on a regular basis because we deal with specialized information.

Compared to Lisa, from “Lisa's Rants and Raves,” where she can talk about whatever she wants, we can only talk about one specific subject. I'm not complaining, (that much anyway), but it can be frustrating.

I'm not positive about how Roseanne feels but we are both in a similar column “field,” so I'm just assuming that she faces these problems too. Sorry Roseanne, for speaking for you.

For all I know she has idea after idea popping into her head like a water buffalo in January. I have no idea what that means but it seemed to fit so I'm going to go with it.

OK, now that I've told you the story of my life, here are several coin facts from usmint.gov. In case you forgot, I've been going in order and we are on number 25—I hope.

25. Two Philadelphia Mint workers are over 90 years old. All U.S. coins are engraved at the Philadelphia Mint, which uses Janvier transfer-engraving machines to reduce the large engraving models to actual coin size. Two of the machines still in use are over 90 years old.

26. George Washington sat here. The first Mint building in Philadelphia was the first public building authorized by the U. S. government under the Constitution. The Mint is in its fourth building today, where it still displays the key to the first Mint, the original Mint Deed, a boot scraper, and a wooden chair that may have supported the bottoms of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. They both lived in Philadelphia when it was the nation's capital, and visited the Mint often.

27. Heads, it's Lincoln; tails, it's Lincoln. The Lincoln cent (1959 to present) features this beloved president on both sides of the coin. On the obverse, we see his face in profile; on the reverse, he is seated in the Lincoln Memorial. However, the coin does carry the initials of two different engravers.

28. Who in the 'New World' was on the first U.S. Commemorative? The first U.S. commemorative coin was produced in 1892 for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It featured Christopher Columbus, the man then credited with discovering the "New World." In 2000, another commemorative coin was produced to honor Leif Ericson, whom we now know reached the shores of the New World almost 500 years before Columbus.

29. Thomas Jefferson liked to count by tens. Thomas Jefferson, honored on the current U.S. nickel, was the first person to back the use of the decimal money system that we use today.

Before I let you go, remember my wise words: “Cash money ain't nothin' funny.” (I know you must be wondering what is going on with that statement. The only thing I can say is sometimes in life one needs to leave our words open for interpretation because if not, then nothing will separate us from the beasts.)

I really am tired as I noticed when I looked back at that saying above. Forgive me for being extra crazy this week and, as usual, thank you very much for reading Coin Corner. See you in a few weeks.