The Lincoln Penny & The Money Museum

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Submitted by - Amanda • Submitted on  06 Feb 2009 04:02:27pm • Go to video page

History: The Lincoln Penny and the Money Museum

Questions
  1. The American Numismatic Association is also the Money Museum. What is Numismatics?
  2. Before money, people bartered. What does ‘barter’ mean? What items did people barter?
  3. Why did people start using coins instead of bartering? What are you good at making that you might be able to barter with? What you like to barter for?
  4. Give 2 examples of how you can learn from coin collecting. (Choose your examples from lessons in the following subjects: math, geography, history, science.)
  5. What’s a mint mark?
  6. This year you can start collecting Lincoln cents. Why?
  7. Coins can be worth a lot. How much did one of the four 1913 cent pieces sell for?
  8. The 2 cent piece was the first coin to have what saying printed on it? Why was this saying used at this time in history?
      Activities
      1. www.usmint.gov/kids/ is a website with great information on coins. Use the site to find out 10 interesting facts about coins to share with your class. Or you can just explore the website, and go on the time machine ride, play coin games, find out about the bicentennial coins – and much more!
      2. Start a coin collection of your own. You can use a book or a website to help you begin. There are many resources on this subject.