Quarter (United States Coin)
A quarter dollar, commonly shortened to quarter, is a coin worth ¼ of a United States dollar or 25 cents. The quarter has been produced since 1796. The choice of 25¢ as a denomination, as opposed to 20¢ which is more common in other parts of the world, originated with the practice of dividing Spanish Milled Dollars into eight wedge shaped segments (cf. "pieces of eight"); at one time "two bits", i.e. two wedges each wedge an eighth, thus a quarter of the Spanish real, was a common nickname for a quarter.
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