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Twenty-five cents that built jukeboxes, laundromats, and an entire economy of nervous parking meters.
means A quarter is one of four equal parts of something, or specifically a U.S. coin worth twenty-five cents — a fourth of a dollar.
from From Latin 'quartus,' meaning fourth, by way of Old French 'quartier.' The math is right there in the bones: to quarter is to split into four, whether you're dividing a pie, a city (think the French Quarter, a distinct district of a town), or a dollar. The mercy sense — 'to give quarter' to a defeated enemy — likely comes from the same root, possibly the idea of providing quarters, a place to be housed and spared rather than slain.
- ridged edge
- 119 grooves once stopped crooks shaving off silver
- state series
- 56 designs minted from 1999 to 2008
- eagle gone
- Washington's reverse now rotates women's portraits
- heads bias
- flipped coins favor the side starting up
us 25 cent coin — american circulating currency, 5.67 grams, minted since 1796
quarter horse — horse breed excelling in quarter-mile sprints, originated in colonial america