# "One Dime" Is it unique in the world? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644 "2014-07-08T16:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644/21 "2014-07-09T13:50:59Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > “Unique” if you mean “having a term meaning a fraction of the major currency unit, not a quantity of the minor”, but as indicated earlier, the British £.s.d system included pounds, crowns (quarter-pounds, but not so called), half-crowns, florins (tenth-pounds), shillings (twentieths of pounds) and pence. Go back far enough and we had nobles valued one-third of a pound (six shillings and eightpence), later called angels (and with a good deal of fluctuation in value over the years). The half-angel (one-sixth of a pound) also existed in Tudor times. Continuing the fancy names for coins, the US $10 gold piece is an Eagle. Naturally when the $20 gold coin came into being, it was known as the Double Eagle. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644/22 "2014-07-10T14:20:20Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > When we did make a 20 cent coin it said “Twenty Cents” [From 1875-1878.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-cent_piece_(United_States_coin)) I’ve got a nice one in my collection. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644/23 "2014-07-10T15:08:37Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [From 1875-1878.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-cent_piece_(United_States_coin)) I’ve got a nice one in my collection. We’ve had quite a few through the shop. [http://store.cybercoins.net/images/bustdimes/a906.jpg](http://store.cybercoins.net/images/bustdimes/a906.jpg) Personally I like the Trade Dollars ---- to the best of my knowledge the only US coin ever made not to be legal tender in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644/24 "2014-07-10T15:29:24Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Pretty much. And don’t get me started on the “Indian Head Penny” (that’s actually Miss Liberty and was meant as a dig against slavery) or “Mercury Dime” (Miss Liberty again portraying “Freedom of Thought”) Yeah! Or the “Barber Dime”! The lady on the coin is obviously wearing a shower cap, and has _never cut anyone’s hair in her life!_ (Real pet peeve: Calling the Eisenhower dollar a “silver dollar.” Pffff, in the 1976 silver-clad bicentennial collector’s set, maybe!) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644/25 "2014-07-15T15:51:06Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Yeah! Or the “Barber Dime”! The lady on the coin is obviously wearing a shower cap, and has _never cut anyone’s hair in her life!_ > > (Real pet peeve: Calling the Eisenhower dollar a “silver dollar.” Pffff, in the 1976 silver-clad bicentennial collector’s set, maybe!) Just in case someone didn’t follow the joke or was curious --------- as least Barber like Morgan (for the dollar) used the name of the designer although technically the name is “Liberty Head”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-dime-is-it-unique-in-the-world/692644.md?page=1)