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    How Coins and Bills are Made: Money Power; Rourke Discovery Library
    How Coins and Bills are Made: Money Power; Rourke Discovery Library
    How Coins and Bills are Made: Money Power; Rourke Discovery Library
    Audiobook20 minutes

    How Coins and Bills are Made: Money Power; Rourke Discovery Library

    Written by Jason Cooper

    Narrated by Rourke Publishing

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    About this audiobook

    Explores how the money we use on a daily basis is made.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRourke Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
    ISBN9781618107053
    How Coins and Bills are Made: Money Power; Rourke Discovery Library

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