RE: Share your coin challenge- Old and Precious 1852 Silver Trime Edition

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kerrislravenhill (72)in #silvergoldstackers • last year

Definitely an odd denomination of a silver coin, what could be bought with a 3 cent coin in the 1860s anyway?

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senstless (74) last year

It was for postage! They dropped the rates from $0.05 to $0.03, and boom we created the three cent piece. !PIZZA
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The three-cent coin was proposed in 1851 both as a result of the decrease in postage rates from five cents to three and to answer the need for a small-denomination, easy-to-handle coin.

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