Half Disme Coins
The Half Disme of 1792: Introduction
As mentioned in the section on the Getz "Half Dollar" Pattern, in 1791 Robert Morris drafted legislation for a national coinage that provided for a presidential portrait on the coins.
Birch Half Disme 1792 Coin Guide
Birch Half Disme 1792
Born of the idea that man's destiny was largely the result of his own effort and imagination, the United States of 1792 had grown to fourteen states with the addition, in 1791, of Vermont.
1792 Half Disme History
1792 Half Disme Obverse and Reverse
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half dime, half disme: A silver 5-cent coin of the United States. The Mint Act of April 2, 1792, authorizes "half dismes." See also disme.
half eagle: A gold $5 coin of the United States. See also eagle.
Half disme - The original spelling of half dime. The first United States regular issue was the 1792 half disme.
Half Dollar - The 50 cent denomination first struck in 1794 that is still issued today.
Half Disme: the 1792 Half Dime (believed to be pronounced "Half Deem", after the French).
Half Dollar: the Fifty Cents coins struck from 1794 until today.
Half Eagle: the official government term for a Five Dollars gold piece.
1792 HALF DISME
BIRCH LIBERTY HEAD
This historical information is provided complements of NGC (Numismatic Guarantee Corporation).
The 1792 Half Dismes
Half dimes, called half dismes at the time, were first minted for circulation in 1792. In that year some 1,500 to 2,000 were produced. The Philadelphia Mint was not ready for commercial coin production.
However, the Mint Act was not passed by Congress until 1792, so the case for the half dismes of 1792 as the first regular issue is also valid.
The various pattern coins of 1792, produced in or out of the Mint facility were not issued for circulation, excepting the 1792 half disme, and this was not produced within the Mint building.
This silver five-cent coin was called a "half disme" (pronounced like "dime"), and was much smaller than today's nickel. Congress decided to have the United States Mint produce a new five-cent coin, made of nickel and copper, in 1866...
obtained two of the rare silver half dismes, now valued at over $200,000 for our clients. Approximately 1,500 silver half-dismes (half-dimes) were minted in 1792, one year before the U.S. Mint was opened.
coin with a face value of 5 cents issued with dates between 1794 and 1873; originally called a half disme half eagle A U.S. gold coin with a face value of $5 first minted in 1795 and last minted in 1929 hobo nickel A coin (usually a U.S.
It was not until 1792, however, that the first coins were struck at the new mint set up in Philadelphia These were the half disme (half dime) and possibly also the disme (dime) struck from silver plate supplied by George Washington himself.
Since they were authorized by the Continental Congress, this would seem to be a logical assumption. However, Congress did not pass the Mint Act until 1792, so an argument for the half dismes (half-dimes) of 1792 as the first regular issue is also ...
The eagle on the reverse of the various Washington cents and half dollars is very similar to the eagle adopted for the reverse of our silver coins. Similarly, the designs of the half disme, disme, Birch cent, ...
 See also: Disme, Revers, Silver, Reverse, Half
  
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