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What type of money system did Thomas Jefferson create?

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Jefferson and American Money! He also said that 100 pennies= 1 dollar.He said that money should be based on the number 10. The word for 100 in Latin is cent, so Jefferson suggested that the word for a 1/100th of a dollar be “cent.”
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