Hello, This week has been kind of rough for most of us around here so, I am going to have to do what I've done before when I have no ideas for columns.

I will turn to that good old trusted site called usmint.gov. This is the site that has the fun coin facts, and is supposedly for kids but, a lot of adults can learn from it too. I did this back in October and I left off with number 35. Obviously, I will be listing five more facts starting with number 36.

The name of this part of the website is H.I.P. Pocket Change, just in case you would like to look it over with your kids or just by yourself.

Anyhow, sorry this column is kind of short but the facts weren't very lengthy this time. I needed to put something in because I don't like to let Larry, of Larry's Coins, down since he's nice enough to be on my page every other week.

I hope he's on this page anyway.

OK, I will now give the next five interesting coin facts:

36. We almost 'bet dollars to doughnuts!' The Mint once considered producing doughnut-shaped coins. Obviously, this idea was viewed as being half-baked.

37. A President had coins as a pet. President Teddy Roosevelt said that the redesign of American coins was his "pet baby." He even personally commissioned the world-renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create new designs.

38. He couldn't make light of his crime. In 1864, James Clarke, an employee of the Denver Mint, stole cash, certificates, and a 10-pound brick of gold. He tried to escape on horseback, but the horse ran away. After getting only a few miles out of Denver, Clarke found his loot too heavy to carry and threw the 10-pound gold brick away. Clarke was caught and ordered to leave the territory.

39. Transporting coins can turn into a real cliffhanger. Legend has it that a shipment of dimes en route to the San Francisco Mint was attacked in southern Utah in the early 1900s. The shipment of dimes supposedly fell over a cliff. Though many people have tried to find the money, no evidence of this shipment has ever been found.

40. They felt "safe as Fort Knox." Citizens of Denver took refuge in the old Denver Mint building in 1864 when they heard rumors of possible Indian attacks.

Thank you for reading Coin Corner and hopefully, I will have something of my own to talk about soon.

See you soon and Happy New Year, by the way.