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In 1851 No one was sure what to call the new 3-cent silver coins

RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 25, 2019 11:09AM in U.S. Coin Forum

This little letter gets straight to the point -- what do we call the new 3-cent silver coin?

The word "trime" was not used. Mint and most other documents usually call the coin "3-cent," "3-cent piece," or "3-cent silver." So far, I have not found a formal reply to the above letter, except the annotation at bottom left: "Answered, for silver, perhaps for gold, not for copper." If it turns up, maybe it will give us a definitive title for these little slips of silver. And -- it'll only be 170 years late!

:)

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