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From the dust jacket:
What's in your pocket right now? Any nails? Shells? A penny? Even a nickel?
Probably you don't aim to exchange your nails or shells for something else. But the penny and the nickel you might use to buy something. That is, the penny and the nickel are money, to you, which you can exchange for something you want more than you do the coins.
Or perhaps you collect coins. If you do, you may want your choice Indian head cent and buffalo nickel more than anything they will buy.
There was a time when nails were used for money, as were shells, tea, musket balls, and other valuable articles. That is why this book is called NAILS TO NICKELS. In it you can read about the early forms of money, what coins were first used in America, and how they eventually came to be made here. You will find in it some interesting facts about money and also what you need to know to start a coin collection of your own.
You will find, too, that each American coin has a true story to tell you. It may be a story of Indians, of the early colonists, of buried treasure and pieces of eight. It may be a very new and fascinating story of coins today. The stories are all here, told briefly and clearly for you to read with ease.
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