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.
From 1875-1878. I’ve got a nice one in my collection.
kopek
July 10, 2014, 3:08pm
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We’ve had quite a few through the shop.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.
tracer
July 10, 2014, 3:29pm
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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!)
kopek
July 15, 2014, 3:51pm
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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”.