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geneusutwerk  ·  4302 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The amazing shrinking penny

I find it odd that this makes no mention of the Half Cent though perhaps that is too old for comparison.





kleinbl00  ·  4302 days ago  ·  link  ·  

FTA:

If we got rid of the penny, the nickel, and the dime, our smallest coin would be the quarter. That would take us back approximately to where we were from 1857, when the last half-penny was minted, up to the First World War.

geneusutwerk  ·  4302 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Awkward. I skipped the third bullet point when I was reading as I got what they were trying to say from the first two....

I expected them to elaborate in the part after that talking about how "discontinuing" coins has a history in the US.

Oh well, thanks for correcting me.

thenewgreen  ·  4302 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They only minted around 1000 in 1796 which led me here

Wouldn't mind having one of those turn up in my change jar.