I used to believe that the picture of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the penny was actually the trolley from Mister Roger's Neighborhood. It took a lot of convincing on my parents part to eventually come to terms with the truth!
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I used to believe because I was born I Abe Lincoln's birthday I had a better shot at being President.— END
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox