ok now you got me going. What's up with the half Dime?

bestbino

This I just can't figure out. Why would anyone call something a Half Dime??? Isn't that what the nickle is for ?? I can understand a half Dollar, but a half Dime ?? Even a half Cent makes Cents ( Pun) . But not a half dime. What's up with that? I don't see any Half nickles or half Quarters. I just can't get a grip on this one. Half Dime

UncleWiggly

I believe it's called a half dime simply because it has silver content. When the nickel barons of the time finally got their way to replace the half dime with metal from their mines, it was just naturely called a nickel.
Did you know that nickel (pure) is magnetic like steel?


Jerry

bestbino

Dah. Nickel Nickel Nickel. Just doing a little spelling check.

UncleWiggly

<< <i>Dah. Nickel Nickel Nickel. Just doing a little spelling check. >>



From now on I'm going to call them nicklets. So a box of chicklets will cost 17 nicklets!

Jerry

michael

nickels might look silvery nickel color but are actually 75% copper

three cent nickels

shield
lib
buff
and jeff nickels

are all .......... 75% copper with the exception of the jeff war nickels


perception and looks are everything


michael

LanLord

Since half dimes were in use during the 1790s it's the original form of the 5 cent piece for the US federal coinage.

Nickels have been the 1 cent coins (1856 Flying Eagle through 1864 Indian CN), then the 3 cent nickel took over the

role of being called the Nickel for a short time until the nickel 5 cent piece was released.

Since there were both silver and nickel 5 cent pieces in circulation at the same time for a few years,

a name to differentiate them needed to be used, Hence nickel = the nickel 5 cent piece.

bestbino

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Conder101

At the time the half dime was struck there was no such thing as a nickel. In the legislation that created the mint established our coins on decimal system with a ten dollar, one dollar, disme, and cent. It also created coins of fractional parts of these "units" half eagle and quarter eagle, hal dollar and quarter dollar, the half cent, and naturally the coin of half the weight of the disme was called the half disme. (Later in 1837, disme was officially changed to dime.) The first "nickel" did not appear until 1857 when the nickname was applied to the new 12% nickel 88% copper "white cents". After the cents went to french bronze in 1864 and the new coppr nickle three cent of 1865 and five cent of 1866 were created the Nickel nickname was used for them.