Historical clue formulations

• Assists, in basketball slang — 2026-06-09
• Coins with F.D.R.'s face on the heads — 2025-02-10
• Coins made primarily of copper — 2025-01-19
• Tiniest change — 2024-05-23
• Coins that are 1.35 mm thick — 2022-05-03
• Items that, ironically, contain nickel — 2020-02-16
• Smallest coins — 2015-08-12
• They have torches on their backs — 2010-06-11
• March of ___ — 2005-08-09
• Small change — 2003-11-29
• Nickels-and-___ (bothers with trivialities) — 2002-02-25
• Meter inserts — 2000-10-15
• Some change — 2000-04-05
• March of ___ — 1999-08-03
• March of ___ — 1998-09-08
• Some change — 1996-09-24
• March of___ — 1996-05-27
• Payment for dozens? — 1994-11-03
• Items in a march? — 1994-07-31