The Strange Short Life of the Twenty-Cent Piece: Why America’s Forgotten Coin Failed in Just Three Years
A Coin Born of Necessity — and Doomed by Familiarity In the years following the Civil War, the American West suffered from a peculiar monetary headache. Small silver coins — dimes and quarters alike — had become scarce in states like California and Nevada, where trade and commerce demanded them in quantity. The dime, worth […]
