John Cowan wrote:
> I can't speak for the whole of the last two centuries, but certainly
> current American bills and coins do not use either symbol. The bills
> in common use say ONE DOLLAR, FIVE DOLLARS, TEN DOLLARS, and TWENTY
> DOLLARS; the coins say ONE CENT, FIVE CENTS (the name "nickel" i
At 09:30 PM 10/26/03 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
> I can't speak for the whole of the last two centuries, but certainly
> current American bills and coins do not use either symbol. The bills
> in common use say ONE DOLLAR, FIVE DOLLARS, TEN DOLLARS, and TWENTY
> DOLLARS; the coins say ONE CENT, FIVE
On 26/10/2003 21:30, Doug Ewell wrote:
...
In my limited experience, that word DIME has done more to confuse
furriners than anything else about the U.S. and Canadian monetary
systems. The dime is the smallest coin in the set physically, weighing
less than half as much as a nickel, and made of (a
Asmus Freytag scripsit:
> Many monetary systems have coin sizes and weights that are based on
> the traditional precious or semi-precious metals once used. The nick-
> name for the nickel gives that away, associating it with a different
> metal than the (presumably once) silver-based dime/quarter/
> ... Ironically,
> in 1943-45 nickels were actually minted in silver, as nickel was considered
> strategic for the war effort. Current nickels are 75% copper and 25%
> nickel, the same as the cladding of the other coins. (Pennies are
> copper-clad zinc, however.)
Prior to 1982, pennies were a
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