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Help with this chart from 1878. US mint gold and silver coin
by henrysmedford » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:07 pm
I found this small book from the 1880s in my late mom stuff. The book is small and has over 500 pages of facts and tables. Any ideas of what the D.C.M in the chart means. I know the non us coin were used in the past but this info is new to me.
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Re: Help with this chart from 1878. US mint gold and silver
by aloneibreak » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:42 pm
d - deci - tenth
c - centi - hundredth
m- milli - thousandth
value based on one u.s. dollar maybe ?
c - centi - hundredth
m- milli - thousandth
value based on one u.s. dollar maybe ?
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Re: Help with this chart from 1878. US mint gold and silver
by coindood » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:46 pm
It's probably the exchange rate in US "dollars, cents and mills", the latter being the smallest official denom, representing one thousandth of a dollar.
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Re: Help with this chart from 1878. US mint gold and silver
by Recyclersteve » Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:59 pm
I was gonna say dollar, cent, and millicent (just a guess- I'll defer to the expert historians to offer a more definitive explanation)...
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Re: Help with this chart from 1878. US mint gold and silver
by 68Camaro » Wed Jan 21, 2015 6:39 am
Recyclersteve wrote:I was gonna say dollar, cent, and millicent (just a guess- I'll defer to the expert historians to offer a more definitive explanation)...
a) Interesting bit of history
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