ONE DIME is what is written on the 10 cent piece. The nickel is labeled FIVE CENTS.
Historically,
the Dime was the smallest silver coin in the US, now there is no such coins. The
nickel was made of
nickel, and the penny was made of copper (it is labeled ONE CENT). The term penny
seems to be a hold
over from old english based money.
--graywolf
Peter Alling wrote:
>
> That would have screwed up that carefully calculated relationship between the
> shilling florin and pound. (Which is the same as between the half-disme
> disme and dollar
> and yes I misspelled dime on purpose to try to use the original spelling.
> The term nickel
> in the US is a nickname so to speak the official term for the 5 cent coin
> used to be and maybe
> still is half-dime).
>
> At 04:29 PM 8/23/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> >On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:51 PM, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
> >[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > 12d in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound (quid).
> > >
> > > ...and that "d" in "12d" is, of course, pronounced "pee". :-)
> > >
> >
> >Nah, it's not - it was pence or pennies. Then of course the Govinm'nt went
> >and stuffed things up by keeping the old pound at it's then value and having
> >100 new pence to a pound, so we had to divide all our old prices by 2.4 to
> >work
> >out what they were in new pence. Should have had a new pound worth 100 old
> >pence - then it would have been easy. For example, an item costing a
> >shilling
> >would then have cost 12np, something at half-a-crown would have been 30np,
> >and
> >so on. We all knew how many pennies there were at any given price, but the
> >sale of calculators went up (by 2.4 times?) when we decimalized.
> >
> >John Coyle
> >(who also thinks this thread is great fun, 'cos it let's him show off all
> >that
> >now useless stuff that was pounded into him by the primary school teachers
> >from
> >hell)
> >Brisbane, Australia
> >
> >
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