When I was really little (like 5 or so), I used to believe that the beaver on the Canadian 5 cent coin was a bonnett - I took me a few years to figure out that it was actually a beaver. How silly is that?
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- i used to belive a fever was a beaver crawling in my head i no right?— poe
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- I thought there was a beaver living in the toilet that would bite me if I wasn't ever vigilant. — Camille
- I used to believe that the bigger the coin was, the more it was worth.— Benjamin
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- I used to believe that coin change could turn into actual paper money if you left it alone for a long time. — Marcus O