id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-913 United States dollar - Wikipedia .html text/html 13266 1594 72 Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution provides that Congress has the power "[t]o coin money."[20] Laws implementing this power are currently codified in Title 31 of the U.S. Code, under Section 5112, which prescribes the forms in which the United States dollars should be issued.[21] These coins are both designated in the section as "legal tender" in payment of debts.[21] The Sacagawea dollar is one example of the copper alloy dollar, in contrast to the American Silver Eagle which is pure silver. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the double eagle, discontinued in the 1930s). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-913.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-913.txt