Hello, This week I was fairly busy so, I made my way over to that old trusted site that I use when I am way past deadline time and don't have any ideas for an original coin column.

The website is from the United States Mint and it has a good section for kids. I've used this before and have given a certain number of coin facts each time, but I forget where I was!

I am just going to take a stab at it and list five more coin facts starting at number 15 through 20. If you want to look at this website in full, you can go to: www.usmint.gov. From there all you have to do is click on the one that says “Education” and then go to “H.I.P Pocket Change.”

I guess I shouldn't have given you my secret strategy when it comes to throwing together some coin info, but I had to give credit to the site. It was bound to come out sooner or later.

Here are five interesting pieces of trivia from that website:

15. This Native American had three different faces. According to artist James E. Fraser, the Native American on the Indian Head and Buffalo nickels was actually a combined image created from three people: a Cheyenne Named Chief Two Moons, an Iroquois named Chief John Big Tree, and a Sioux named Chief Iron Tail.

16. Her best soup spoons make good pocket change. Legend has it that Martha Washington donated the silverware from her table to make the nation's first currency.

17. Half a dime wasn't a nickel then. The first American coins were half dimes—spelled "dismes"—which were struck in the fall of 1792. Though worth 5 cents, they contained no nickel, but were mostly silver with a trace of copper. The first circulating coins were one cent pieces made the following year.

18. Before the Mint Police, there was a Mint Pup. Old records show that $3 was spent to purchase a watchdog to protect the first Mint in Philadelphia.

19. How old is Peter, the original Mint Eagle? On display at the Philadelphia Mint is Peter, the bald eagle who lived at the first Mint and was befriended by its employees. After his untimely death, the workers had Peter mounted, and he has remained on display for more than 150 years.

20. The first Mint had a lot of horse power. Horses, oxen, and men powered the Mint's coin presses before 1816. The first steam operated coin press appeared in 1836.

I'm back! These don't look familiar so I think I was right about what number I was on. I noticed when I was copying these that they aren't just for kids. I'm sure that someone just getting into coins, no matter what age, could learn something from them.

Thank you for reading Coin Corner and I will be back in two weeks.