Minor coin - a base-metal coin of small value, such as a cent or nickel
Mint - the structure where coins are produced, or, the governmental body overseeing its work ...
minor coin
A silver coin of less than crown weight or any coin struck in base metal.
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MINOR COIN
Any coin less than crown weight, size, or value, in any metal but gold.
MINOR VARIETY ...
Silver and Minor Coins Proof Set: One Cent, Five Cents, Dime, Quarter Dollar, Half Dollar and Dollar (sold as sets only; individual coins were not sold separately)
1891 Minor Coin Set
Minor Coin Proof Set: One Cent and Five Cents ...
Schwaren - A minor coin of the North Sea coastal area. The schwaren was first coined at Bremen in the second half of the 14th century as a "Schwere dickpfennig" (heavy, thick pfennig), worth 1/5 grote.
The obverse of the minor coins (the half centavo and one centavo, both coined in bronze, and the copper-nickel five centavos) featured the semi-nude figure of an adolescent native, seated at an anvil and holding a hammer in his right hand.
From 1858 through 1916, minor coins (copper and nickel issues, from the cent through the nickel five-cent piece) were sold in sets, and silver coins were likewise sold in separate sets.
The Mint Act of 1873 had abolished the silver trime, half dime and dollar, but without giving the San Francisco or Carson City Mints authority to produce minor coins.
circulating coinsTextual Records (in Philadelphia): Annual statistics on gold, silver, and minor coinage, 1794-1873. Letters sent relating to coins, 1866-73.
session such information as he may have, or may be able to obtain meantime, as to the comparative merits and advantages of pure nickel, nickel alloy, aluminum combined or alloyed with other metals, and of copper bronze as material for our minor coins; ...
You will notice that all of the above were coinages designed to fill the need of minor coins as these were the sizes that were needed most.
Both of these minor coins were soon discontinued. The follis began a steady decline in size until it was a fraction of its original size.
This practice was to be discontinued in 1911 with the installation of two Tolhurst centrifugal drying machines, but it is probable the sawdust drying practice continued for minor coinage until about 1913.
A metal alloy occassionally used for minor coin issues consisting of a mixture of silver and a very high copper content. Sometimes billon coins are treated with a thin silver coating to give a shiny appearance.
Bi-Metallic ...
Snowden believed that the nation's three minor coins, the cent, three-cent piece and five-cent piece, should be uniform in design and metallic composition. In 1881 he directed Chief Engraver Charles E.
That law simply gave Treasury officials discretionary authority concerning inscriptions on the nation's minor coins.
A series of minor coins denominated from 1 Laari to 50 Laari was released into circulation in AH1404 (1984).
billon: A low-grade alloy used for some minor coin issues consisting usually of a mixture of silver and copper, and sometimes coated with a silver wash.
The Frederico Diaz Lascano Collection of Gold Coins and Antiquities, Ancient Silver and Copper, U.S. Minor Coins. Counterstamped coins from the Tim Browder collection. Catalogue for the Public Auction to be held on May 10, 1969 by Hans M.F. Schulman.
Billon - A very low-grade alloy of silver and other metals, usually copper, which is used in minor coinage early in U.S. Mint history.
Bi-metallic - A coin with the center and outer ring(s) being made from different metal alloys.
More people looking for error coins means that more minor coin errors are going to be found.
To alleviate the situation, the silver content of the nation's minor coinage was somewhat lessened, to an amount less than their face value, indicated by arrows at the date and rays on the reverse.
Most collectors have Hard Times and Civil War tokens in their collections. These tokens circulated as money during two periods in this country history when nearly all the minor coins issued by the United States government were hoarded.
 See also: Mint, Silver, Coin, Coinage, Gold
  
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