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| | The United States Mint |
 | | United States coins currently in circulation show the following portraits: Abraham Lincoln on the one-cent coin; Thomas Jefferson on the nickel; Franklin D. Roosevelt on the dime; George Washington on the quarter; and John F. Kennedy on the half-dollar coin. | | | When United States coins were first produced in 1793, our standard coin was the silver dollar. | | | The United States Mint produced the rest of our coins (except the one-cent coin) in a proportionate metallic content to the dollar, with the sizes regulated accordingly. |
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| | Dime (U.S. coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A dime is a coin minted by the United States with a denomination of 1/10th of a United States dollar or ten cents. | | | Dimes are important to the history of coins in that they were the first coins minted as part of the decimal system that was invented at the inception of the US monetary system. | | | In colloquial language, the word dime usually refers only to the ten-cent coin rather than to the quantity of money; one would not normally call two separate five-cent coins taken together a "dime". |
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| | UNITED STATES PROOF COIN SETS |
| | The method for making a proof coin starts out as it does for any other coin: A United States Mint sculptor-engraver begins by sculpting a clay model of the coin design. | | | Although mintages for individual coins may be higher, no more than 551 sets composed of the Lincoln Cent through the Barber Half Dollar could ever have been assembled, and far fewer survive today in all states of preservation. | | | United States proof coins are extraordinarily brilliant with sharp relief and a mirror-like surface. |
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| | CoinResource - United States Coins History and Mint Information |
| | Coins minted in Philadelphia bear a P or no mint mark; those minted in Denver, a D; in San Francisco, an S; and in West Point, a W. Although the Coinage Act of 1965 specified that no mint marks would be used for five years, Congress authorized in late 1967 that mint marks be resumed. | | | U.S. coin denominations used in the past were the half-cent, two-cent, three-cent, and 20-cent pieces, as well as a small silver coin called a half-dime. | | | Other coin denominations in common use today are the 25-cent, 10-cent, five-cent, and one-cent pieces, familiarly known as the quarter, dime, nickel, and penny. |
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| | United States dollar coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Original silver dollars from this period are highly prized by coin collectors and are exceptionally valuable, especially the 1804 silver dollar, which is one of the rarest and most famous coins in the world. | | | Susan B. Anthony dollar coins were sometimes referred to as "Carter quarters." This was a snide reference to both the deterioration of the value of the dollar during Jimmy Carter's term and the Anthony dollar's strong physical resemblance to the quarter, often causing it to be mistakenly spent as such. | | | While dollar coins are used infrequently in general commerce, they are used in place of tokens in some areas and are given as change in many United States Postal Service stamp vending machines, creating a relatively small but significant demand. |
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| | United States coinage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Both the one cent (penny) and the five cent (nickel) are larger than the dime, worth ten cents, and the less common 50-cent coin is larger than the recent Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony dollar coins. | | | Furthermore, the coins' inscriptions do not follow a consistent pattern of describing the value in cents: "One Cent" (penny), "Five Cents" (nickel) "One Dime" (dime, worth 10 cents), "Quarter Dollar" (quarter, worth 25 cents), and "Half Dollar" (worth 50 cents); knowledge of these terms is required for visitors. | | | Many object to the low values and cumbersome sizes of U.S. coins, as unlike other First World nations, the U.S. has never adjusted the basic scheme of its coinage to accommodate the many-fold inflation of the past century. |
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| | The United States Mint |
| | The United States Mint invites artists nationwide to participate in a renaissance of American coin and medal design. | | | Order any in-stock items by December 13, 2004 and receive by December 25 via express delivery, anywhere in the United States. | | | United States Mint Offers Ride in Time Machine to Social Studies Teachers |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United States dollar coin |
| | Susan B. Anthony dollar coins were sometimes referred to as "Carter quarters." This was a snide reference to both the deterioration of the value of the dollar during Jimmy Carter's term and the Anthony dollar's strong physical resemblance to the quarter, often causing it to be mistakenly spent as such. | | | While dollar coins are used infrequently in general commerce, they are used in place of tokens in some areas and are given as change in many United States Postal Service stamp vending machines, creating a relatively small but significant demand. | | | Dollar coins have found little popular acceptance in modern circulation in the United States, despite several attempts since the late 1970s to phase-in a coin in place of the one-dollar bill. |
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| | 31C51.txt |
| | (4) a dime coin that is 0.705 inch in diameter and weighs 2.268 grams. | | | The words "at the mints of the United States" and "according to the legally prescribed standards and devices of such country" are omitted as unnecessary because of the restatement. | | | The 5-cent coin is an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel. |
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| | The United States Mint produces circulating coinage (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar, and dollar coin) in order for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. | | | United States proof coins are extraordinarily brilliant with sharp relief and a mirror-like surface. | | | United States has not been modernized during the 25-year period preceding the date of enactment of this Act; a circulating commemorative 25-cent coin... |
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| | Franklin Half Dollar |
| | The Walking Liberty half dollar, last struck in 1947, was the final precious-metal coin remaining in production from the early 20th-century period that spawned the "Mercury" dime, Standing Liberty quarter and Saint-Gaudens double eagle. | | | This had been required by law on the half dollar since 1792 and was reaffirmed by the Coinage Act of 1873, which mandated the placement of an eagle on every U.S. silver coin larger than the dime. | | | Sinnock's portrait of Franklin, modeled after a bust by 18th-century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, is bold and clean, contrasting sharply with the subtle, detailed depiction of Miss Liberty on the Walking Liberty coin it replaced. |
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| | U.S. Treasury - FAQs: Denominations of Coins |
| | Except for the copper penny, all coins were produced in proportionate metallic content to the dollar, and their sizes were regulated accordingly. | | | But back in 1793, when the first U.S. coins were produced, the United States Mint linked the sizes of coins to a particular metal standard—the silver dollar. | | | Many times, even the Treasury Department and the United States Mint use the term penny because that is what is normally referred to in general use by the public. |
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| | US CODE: Title 31,5112. Denominations, specifications, and design of coins |
| | In general.— The designs for the quarter dollar coins issued during each year of the 10-year period referred to in paragraph (1) shall be emblematic of 5 States selected in the order in which such States ratified the Constitution of the United States or were admitted into the Union, as the case may be. | | | Single state designs.— The design on the reverse side of each quarter dollar issued during the 10-year period referred to in paragraph (1) shall be emblematic of 1 of the 50 States. | | | (4) a dime coin that is 0.705 inch in diameter and weighs 2.268 grams. |
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| | Welcome - Centerville Coin & Jewelry Connection |
| | Every set include a one cent piece, a nickel, a dime, a quarter and a half-dollar. | | | We are the largest coin shop in Dayton, Ohio with over 4,000 square feet of coins, jewelry and collectables. | | | Place the sample wrappers (provided) inside the coin tubes and activate your bank by dropping some change into the hopper; the Money Wrapper magically comes to life. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/United States dollar coin |
| | Dollar coins have found little popular acceptance in modern circulation in the United States, despite several attempts since the late 1970s to phase-in a coin in place of the one-dollar bill. | | | The first $1 gold coin of 1849 was only 13 mm in diameter; at only three-quarters the size of the present-day dime, it was the smallest coin in U.S. history. | | | Original silver dollars from this period are highly prized by coin collectors and are exceptionally valuable, especially the 1804 silver dollar, which is one of the rarest and most famous coins in the world. |
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| | President Of The United States Coin links |
| | American Historic Society :: 1964 JFK 1/2 Dollar Roll & Liberty Dime Roll - Buy 1 (Coins& Coin Sets) | | | This is a special offer, which includes both 20 rare 1964 Silver Half Dollars and 50 Silver Roosevelt Dimes. | | | To obtain information on president of the united states Coin links, simply click on the 'Buy' buttons to confirm latest prices, delivery and availability direct from the supplier. |
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| | Math Trek: Coins for Making Change Efficiently, Science News Online, May 10, 2003 |
| | Instead of replacing the popular dime with another coin, it's also possible to see whether the addition of a fifth coin would help. | | | Despite its apparent inefficiency, the current U.S. system of coin denominations has a striking advantage over many other possible systems. | | | For the current four-denomination system, he found that, on average, a change-maker must return 4.70 coins with every transaction. |
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| | Math Trek: Coins for Making Change Efficiently, Science News Online, May 10, 2003 |
| | Instead of replacing the popular dime with another coin, it's also possible to see whether the addition of a fifth coin would help. | | | Despite its apparent inefficiency, the current U.S. system of coin denominations has a striking advantage over many other possible systems. | | | For the current four-denomination system, he found that, on average, a change-maker must return 4.70 coins with every transaction. |
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| | The United States Mint |
| | The 2006 United States Mint Proof Set® will become available March 22, 2006. | | | Established in 1792, the United States Mint Police is one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies in the nation. | | | The United States Mint has placed a hold on orders deliveralbe to many areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Commemorative Half-Dollar |
| | United States coins are manufactured by the United States Mint, an agency of the Department of the Treasury. | | | The mint makes five coins for general circulation—the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and half-dollar. | | | The mint has periodically issued one-dollar coins for general circulation, such as the Sacagawea dollar released in 2000. |
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| | Clawson Mi |
| | As part of above, incorporate Franklin half dollar into United States half dollar coin and probably Wheat penny into Penny (U.S. coin). | | | Thoroughly copy-edit the entire United States coins category and make sure stuff that isn't currently there gets included -cl | | | Finish breaking down other U.S. coin denominations by series, as has been done with the dime and nickel. |
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| | United States Mint Sets |
| | Effective that year, each 20-coin United States Mint Uncirculated Coin Set® contains two envelopes — one holding coins from the Denver Mint facility, and the second containing coins from the Philadelphia Mint facility. | | | 2006 United States Uncirculated Mint Set PandD Mints includes all 2006 State Quarters along with the new 2006 Jefferson Nickel. | | | The first package contains the cent, nickel, dime, half-dollar, and the dollar (SBA in 1999, Sacagawea beginning in 2000). |
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| | Half Dimes |
| | The half dime was one of the original denominations introduced almost as soon as the United States coinage system began. | | | The design used on the half dime coins of 1796 and 1797 followed suggestions made by artist Gilbert Stuart, the man whose painting of Washington is the model for the vignette on the current dollar bill. | | | Congress moved to revamp the entire coinage system, doing away with several denominations while paving the way for the nickel composition 5-cents coin to replace the half dime once and for all. |
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| | Dime (United States coin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While now made of sandwich-like clad layers of cupro-nickel (an alloy of 75 percent copper and 25 percent nickel), dimes were originally made of 89.24 percent silver and 10.76 percent copper, the expense of which required the coins to be very small in order to prevent their intrinsic value being worth more than face value. | | | A dime is a coin issued by the United States Mint with a denomination of one tenth of a United States dollar, or ten cents. | | | All 1796 dimes have 15 stars, while 1797 dimes have either 16 stars (reflecting Tennessee's admission as the 16th state) or 13 stars (for the 13 original states, after the Mint deemed it impractical to continue the practice of adding a new star for each new state). |
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| | Half dime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Canada also once used silver coins of five-cent denomination; they were colloquially referred to as "fish scales," due to the fact that they were very thin (the term "half dime" never having been used in Canada), and were produced until Canada also switched to nickel five-cent pieces in 1922. | | | The half dime was a silver coin, valued at five cents, formerly minted in the United States. | | | In the 1860s, powerful nickel interests successfully lobbied for the creation of new coins, which would be made of a copper-nickel alloy; production of such coins began in 1865 and were struck in two denominations — three cents and five cents (the latter debuting in 1866). |
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| | Despite its tiny size, the "Mercury" dime may very well be the most beautiful coin ever produced by the United States Mint. | | | Even in its final years, this was a coin with real buying power. | | | Collectors with a penchant for perfection prefer Mercury dimes with "full split bands", completely visible lines in the bands around the fasces. |
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| | United States dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first dollar coins issued by the United States mint were of the same size and composition as the Spanish dollar and even after the American Revolutionary War the Spanish and U.S. silver dollars circulated side by side in the United States. | | | The sizes of the dime, quarter, and half dollar are holdovers from before 1964, when they were made from 90% silver ; their sizes thus depended upon the amount of silver which cost their respective values, and helps explain why the dime is the smallest of the coins. | | | This coin was popular among American colonists who called it the Spanish dollar, the name having derived from a German coin of similar size and composition known as the thaler). |
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| | United States dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States Mint also produces silver, gold and platinum bullion coins, called "American Eagles", all of which are legal tender though their use in everyday transactions is virtually non-existent. | | | Even foreign companies with little direct presence in the United States, such as the European company Airbus, list and sell their products in dollars, although some argue this is attributed to the aerospace market being dominated by American companies. | | | In 1775, the United States and the individual states began issuing "Continental Currency" denominated in Spanish dollars and (for the issues of the states) the £sd currencies of the states. |
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