half dimeの例文

• The Mint Act of 1873 ended the production of the half dime.
• The silver half dime, equal to five cents, had been issued since the 1790s.
• These half dimes ( originally spelled " half dismes " ), were struck in silver.
• Guy gets himself hired as an actor to better figure out who knows about the half dime.
• The five cent nickel coin was introduced in 1866, and gradually it made the half dime obsolete.
• Also eliminated by the 1873 act were the two-cent piece, three-cent silver and half dime.
• Silver half dimes had been struck from the early days of the United States Mint in the late 18th century.
• The abolition of the half dime, still circulating in the Far West, led to shortages of small change there.
• Except on the half dime, abolished in 1873, the designs would remain on those coins for over 50 years.
• In that year several more patterns were created, including the half dime, then known as a " half disme ".
• The act eliminated the two-cent piece, silver three-cent piece, silver half dime and the revival of silver coinage ".
• The seated liberty dime and seated liberty half dime followed the next year in 1837 and the seated liberty quarter and seated liberty half dollar in 1839.
• The law abolished the two-cent piece, three-cent silver, half dime, and standard silver dollar ( later restored in 1878 ).
• Half dimes continued to be struck, at both the Philadelphia and the San Francisco Mint, until the series was ended by the Coinage Act of 1873.
• Improved economic conditions, combined with low silver prices, brought large quantities of hoarded silver coinage, including half dimes, into circulation beginning in April 1876.
• The act lowered the silver weight of the coins ranging from the half dime to half dollar by 6.9 %, though the dollar remained unaffected.
• Also in 1837, the half dime's obverse design changed from one by William Kneass, depicting a bust of three cent piece was issued by the Mint.
• The silver three-cent piece ( along with the silver dollar, the half dime, and the two-cent piece ) was discontinued by the Coinage Act of 1873.
• However, others consider the 1792 half dime to be nothing more than a pattern coin, or'test piece', and this matter continues to be subject to debate.
• Hendershott started collecting coins at the age of 12, finding half cents, large cents, 2-cent pieces, half dimes and other obsolete coinage still in circulation ."