Talk:United States Mint coin sizes

Intent of this page
I've personally been curious, recently, about the relative sizes of different US coins. Though I have many of the older coins in my personal collection, I haven't been able to get a firm grasp on just how big, or how small, some of them are (I'm also hindered by the fact that most of the more valuable ones are in holders). For people who've never even seen older coins, it becomes even harder to truly "feel" what these coins were like, if their only exposure is pictures in a book (or wiki).

I'm hoping that this chart might help to drive home the changes in coin size and composition, as well as the various types of coin (copper, copper/nickel, silver, gold) that used to be in circulation all at the same time. In Europe, with the new Euro coinage, the general public has sort of the old "tri-metal" feel in the three groups of coin metals being used. However, in the US we haven't had such a wholesale overhaul of coinage, and many of the coin sizes, which were originally dictated by their precious metal content, seem arbitrary and archaic.

So hopefully this'll help better illustrate what used to circulate, and how today's coins are only a fraction of the variety of coinage we've produced in the past. Dschuetz 03:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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