Fun fact, we had a half-cent coin.
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1 quarter is 2 bits 🤯

Imagine a time when a dollar was worth so much you would physically divide them 🤔
My 11 year old son was just yelling about this yesterday in a tirade against removing the penny.
We had 2 and 3 cent coins
A penny isnt the smallest US currency, you can divide it infinitely. The smallest unit of Gold is an atom. The smallest unit of bitcoin is a satoshi. One atom of gold at $3000 an ounce is roughly $0.000000000000000000008