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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The US Almost Had Coins Worth A Tenth Of A Cent
Description: Around this time in 1935, the US government was making a big decision about some small amounts of money: there was a push to create a kind of currency worth a tenth of a cent. Plus: the story of a silver certificate issued in 1899 that featured the likeness of Tȟatȟóka Íŋyaŋke, a Hunkpapa Lakota chief who is, to date, the only Native American to appear on US paper money.
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