http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states_dollar
It has a bit more info than you need, but it shows pictures of the different bills and you can click on links of the coins to see pictures of those. Basically you just need to know that the dollar ($1.00) is the basic unit. The bills represent how many dollars each are worth ($5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $50.00, $100.00)
Coins represent cents (fractions) of a dollar. 100 cents makes up a whole dollar. There are 5 basic types of coins: penny (1 cent, $0.01), nickel (5 cents, $0.05), dime (10 cents, $0.10), quarter (25 cents, $0.25), half dollar (50 cents, $0.50). So 100 pennys would make 1 dollar, 10 dimes makes 1 dollar, etc.
So $1.49 would be made up of 1 dollar ($1.00), 1 quarter ($0.25) , 2 dimes ($0.20) and 4 pennies ($0.04).
Hope this helps more than it confuses.
2007-02-26 07:18:30
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