Denver Gold and Silver Coins
600 South Holly Street Suite 103
Denver, Colorado 80246

Open Monday - Thursday from 9 am to 6 pm
Friday and Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm
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Two bits is a colloquial expression in the United States for 25 cents. It dates from colonial days, when a common unit of currency was the Spanish milled dollar. As a way of making change, these dollars were often cut into eight pie-slice shaped pieces, called bits. Hence, two bits being a quarter dollar.

One source of the term's continued modern notability comes from the line "Shave and a Haircut" and the response of "two bits."