Helping kids appreciate money
...Fort Knox currently holds more than $204 Billion in gold within its vaults? Or that in the past it has stored the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and many other priceless documents and treasures? Learn these and more fun facts about our great nations gold depository.
Cattle are probably the oldest of all forms of money. Cattle as
money dates back to 9000 B.C. Some cattle were still used as money in parts of
Africa in the middle of the 20th century.
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On the back of the One Dollar bill, you will see two circles. Together, they comprise the Great Seal of the United States of America. The First Continental Congress requested that Benjamin Franklin and a group of men come up with a Seal. It took four years to accomplish this task and two years to get it approved.
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