When I was about six years old I figured out that a penny was worth a cent because it had one cent's worth of copper in it. A nickel had five cents' worth of nickel, a dime had ten cents' worth of silver, etc.
Dollar bills I decided were worth a dollar because the printing process was so expensive.
A childhood belief about money
others believed things like this
- my dad used to tell me that nickles were worth more then a dime cause they were bigger — brittany
- I used to believe that the bigger the coin was, the more it was worth.— Benjamin
- A friend of mine seemed to think that 100 pence was worth £6.— Richard Davies
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- i used to think that if i tore a dollar bill in half it would make fifty cents— stacy