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New Member
United States
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We should start a protest to save the nickel! Us collectors love are Jefferson's and I would hate for it to be turned into some kind of "half-dime" BOOOOOO
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Valued Member
United States
335 Posts |
it's off to the bank for me.
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Valued Member
United States
311 Posts |
I donno... ever since the redesign of the obverse I lost my enthusiasm for the Jeff. He used to look like a statesman, now he looks like a dandy.
Since the "nickel" has never actually said "nickel" anywhere on it, changing the name from 5-cent piece to half-dime will not make people stop calling it a nickel. Have the Canadians stopped using the term since the actual nickel was removed from theirs?
Now, if they made the coin semi-circular, I bet the term "half-dime" would actually come into use again...
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Moderator
 United States
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ever since the redesign of the obverse I lost my enthusiasm for the Jeff. I consider my 1938~2003 Jefferson nickel collection complete. I still collect the new ones, they are just in a different album.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It seems to me that they would have to put "Five Cents/5 Cents" in really large letters to avoid people mistaking it for a 10¢ 'full' Dime.... I would have a little trouble believing too much of that would happen considering the Half Dime is 3 mm smaller in diameter than the dime. Quote:
Have the Canadians stopped using the term since the actual nickel was removed from theirs? Actually I don't believe they call them nickels. I think they call them five cents. I believe they call their other coins 10 cent and 25 cent as well. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Actually I don't believe they call them nickels. I think they call them five cents. I believe they call their other coins 10 cent and 25 cent as well. Nope. We call them penny, nickel, dime and quarter. Don't try asking for half dollars though, they're called "50 cent" coins, and the banks don't have them anyway as they don't circulate, and haven't done so for quite some time. The last time I found any in a bank was over 5 years ago.  On another note - our nickels used to be pure nickel (until 1982), unlike those cupronickels used down south. But we have changed the composition twice since then, once to curponickel and now to plated steel. |
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United States
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Quote:I would have a little trouble believing too much of that would happen considering the Half Dime is 3 mm smaller in diameter than the dime. According to US Coin Facts it is 2 mm smaller than a dime and 3.1 mm smaller than the cent. But I agree, with your point, differentiating them is very easy. I have no problem seeing the difference when they are side-by-side. I was thinking that not using a reeded edge on the half-dime might help differentiate them further. Any comments? |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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That's just it, I still think that if they use a 'classic-size' half-dime (only 2 mm smaller than a dime and with a reeded edge), that a fair number of the public would be confusing it with a full dime unless it said "Five (5) Cents" in large letters. Two millimeters is really not much of a size difference in coins unless you're holding them side by side! Definitely, it would help the public differentiate between the dime and half-dime denominations if the half-dime's edge was not reeded (giving it a design continuity with the Nickel, in that respect). Heck, put Jefferson & Monticello on it and the public would still call it a "nickel"....  With all this fuss, I've even bought myself a P&D pair of 2006 "Return To Monticello" Mint-wrapper BU rolls, and I thought I'd never do that!  Quote:
PennehChaos: "I donno... ever since the redesign of the obverse I lost my enthusiasm for the Jeff. He used to look like a statesman, now he looks like a dandy."  It looks a little better as a proof, but doesn't every coin design look better as a proof anyway?! Edited by DNA
10/03/2008 11:29 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Just put a big Roman numeral V on the reverse  Oh wait, they did that already  |
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Valued Member
United States
227 Posts |
I like the idea of a new Half Dime. But, I think it'll confuse the heck out ordinary people since the old ones at least were similair in size to the dime. Would be amusing though for the first few months. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I really don't think they will change the size or thickness because think of all of people in the 'vending' machine business having an uproar. Everything is vending these days - and most of them still won't take a dollar coin.
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Valued Member
United States
60 Posts |
Me personally like the idea of a Half Dime I dont really care for the Jefferson nickel it's heavy and the new ones are a little ugly also is it just me or would a 20c coin be better then the 25c |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
I saw some 1/2 dimes at my coin shop today and those things are tiny! I can't imagine the general public would approve of them.
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Valued Member
United States
227 Posts |
I like the idea of the 20 cent coin but For the reason Michelle K stated I don't think they'll do that since The quarter doesn't cost them more than twenty five cents the number I saw was it costs them about 10 cents to produce a quarter.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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nod2003: "I can't imagine the general public would approve of (half-dimes)." The little old ladies with big coin purses would love the half-dime's lighter weight! They, and some other folks, do complain about the Nickel's size.... As for vending machines, a plated steel 'nickel' would have a different electro-magnetic signature ( especially if the plating wore off!), so either a steel-core 'nickel' or a half-dime would require changes to vending machines. Even today, 1943 steel cents put into a CoinStar machine will end up in the 'reject' bin! The half-dime would have an advantage for vending machine use in that it would be a 'copper-nickel sandwich', matching the electro-magnetic signature of existing dimes and quarters. I do think that Nickels would be massively hoarded from circulation if the Fed. was known to be recalling and melting Nickels! If they did that 'on the quiet' once the replacement for the cupro-nickel 5¢ coin appeared, it would probably take years for the existing 'cupro-Nickels' to disappear from circulation. Edited by DNA
10/04/2008 6:59 pm
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