07-03-2009, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by John the Jute  Here's an answer from a different point of view: not my own preferences but observations of others.
The coins in history which have actually inspired HATRED seem to be those with a political message, express or implied. During the English Civil War, the King's coinage had his six-word slogan on the reverse, in Latin naturally; Parliament's coinage had inscriptions in English, to emphasize how non-Catholic it was. The King's supporters called Parliament's coinage "breeches money"--this was not intended to be polite.
Did the same happen in the War Between the States?
At a lower level of emotion, most all coins less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter have in their time inspired ANNOYANCE at being too small for practical use. The US dime--and its UK equivalent the 5 pence piece--are just about on the irritability boundary.
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