What’s In Your Pocket?

Lessons That Make Cents A circulating coin is a coin used in daily life as money. They are made to “circulate” among people as they take care of their daily business of buying and selling, saving, and collecting. These are the coins you have at home in your piggy bank. Circulating coins show the faces of famous people, most of them presidents. The United States Mint has many lesson plans that use the coins in your pocket to demonstrate key ideas and concepts ...