Talking Quarters

Quarters.  They are a coin most of us handle daily (or used to, before the invention of debit and credit cards).  But, how much do we really know about this historic coin?  For example, have you ever realized that some coins, such as the quater, have ridges but others do not?  It's true.  Ridging coins all started back when money was made of more precious metals.  Ridging acted as a way to deter people from shaving off pieces of the coin and made it harder to counterfeit these valuable coins.  However, this process has never been applied to pennies and nickels because these coins have never been made of what was considered a valuable metal.  So, just how many ridges are on your twenty-five cent piece? 119.