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[nawee]

Hello,

What does it mean by 'a roll of quarters"? As far as I know, we talk about a roll of bank notes. But a quarter is a coin, isn't it? How can we have a "roll of quarters"?

I got this sentence from a book that compile (mainly) American colloquial expressions. This sentence is from the Bank and Money section (the section that consists of expressions used in dealing with the bank)

Thank you,

Nawee

[CP]

Quarters are quarter dollars, worth $.25 (twenty-five cents).

U.S. coins can be (and often are) stacked and put into paper tubes folded at the ends. These are called rolls of coins. They are convenient for counting and are stored that way by merchants until they need more of the coins to put into the till.

If you have a lot of change that you want to cash in at a bank, you have to roll it first.

If my memory is correct, and it may be faulty, we have:
--rolls of pennies: 50 one-cent coins to a roll (worth $.50);
--rolls of nickels: 20 five-cent coins to a roll (worth a dollar);
--rolls of dimes: 50 ten-cent coins to a roll (worth $5);
--rolls of quarters: 20 twenty-five-cent coins to a roll (worth $5);
--rolls of half-dollars: unknown number of fifty-cent coins to a roll; and
--rolls of dollar coins.

We rarely see or use half-dollars or dollar coins, however.
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