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Shutterstock.1 U.S.Mint.2 OPurestock/SuperStock.3 ◎Comstock/Corbis.(quarter)U.S.Mint.4 www.coinpage.com.5 U.S.Mint.6 Shutterstock.7(t)R.Morley/PhotoLink.(r)U.S.Mint.8(t)◎ Shutterstock.(quarter)U.5.Mint.9(b)C Squared Studios.(quarter)U.S.Mint.10(b)◎ Picture Quest.(quarter)U.5.Mint  \nCopyright O by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic ormechanical,including photocopying or recording,or by any information storage and retrieval system,without the priorwritten permission of the copyright owner unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law.Requestsfor permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed to Houghton Miffin Harcourt School Publishers,Attn:Permissions,6277 Sea Harbor Drive,Orlando,Florida 32887-6777.  \nPrinted in China  \nISBN-13:978-0-547-02129-4  \nISBN-10:0-547-02129-1  \n456780940181716151413121110  \n\n| If you have received these materials as examination copies free of charge,Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers  \u003Cbr>retains title to the materials and they may not be resold.Resale of examination copies is strictly prohibited.   |\n| --- |\n\n\n| Possession of this publication in print format does not entitle users to convert this publication,or any portion of it,into  \u003Cbr>electronic format.   |\n| --- |\n\n# Introduction\n\nDo you have an eagle in your pocket?Or a President in your piggy bank?Look at the coins you have.What doyou see?There's a President on thequarter.He was our first President,George Washington.Flip over thatquarter,and you'll see an eagle.  \nThese kids are collecting coins.  \nCaesar Rodney,who signedthe Declaration of Independence.  \nuarters have been around for along time.Many of them are specialand fun.So before you and your friendsdart into stores to spend your coins,youmight want to look at them.You'll learnsome history.  \nLady Libertyappearedon quartersuntil 1932.  \n# The First Quarters\n\nWhen our country was new,peopleneeded money to buy things.So theleaders scrambled to make coins forthem.One of the coins they made wasthe quarter.People have had quarters tospend for more than 300 years.  \nLady Liberty was on the first quarters.Lady Liberty was a symbol of freedom.Her picture changed over the years.  \nSometimes she had long hair,sometimesshort.Her dress changed over time,too.Then in 1932,she disappeared!  \nWhy did the quarter change in 1932?Well,George Washington was born 200years earlier,in 1732.People wanted todo something special to honor our firstPresident.So they decided to put himon the quarter.  \nSo Washington rapidly replacedLady Liberty.But people saved theirold Lady Liberty quarters.Old coinsare worth a lot.  \nQuarters continued to show an eagleon the flip side.The eagle was so smallit looked like a pigeon!Overthe years,the bird gotbigger.The eaglestayed on the  \nquarter until 1999.The eagle is ournational 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