September's Brain Teaser

Coin Catch

Mariah was cleaning out her purse and found a handful of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. She found 16 coins in all.

She had:
the same number of nickels as pennies.
$1.00 in quarters.
2 more dimes than quarters.

Use this information and the following U.S. coin values to answer the question below.
5 pennies = 5 cents, or 1 nickel
2 nickels = 10 cents, or 1 dime
5 nickels = 25 cents, or 1 quarter
4 quarters = 100 cents, or 1 dollar, written $1.00

How much money did she find in all?