Going Back to the Half Dime

If you are old enough you remember "penny candy" called such because you could buy several pieces for a penny (cent).

 

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Amen the last attractive coin minted was the walking liberty half and it was a beauty one of the best designs the st gaudens $20 was even better I'm still partial to the draped bust of the 1795-1807 period she was my kind of girl busty and curvy I think they should have contests of top artists and sculptors to design the new coinage like they did in the first part of the 20th c where we got the standing and walking liberty the st gaudens 10 and 20 the mercury dime the buffalo nickel and the peace dollar every one good looking coins

 

On that note politicians should be banned forever not just on coins

 

Personally I feel especially with inflation they should begin producing large denomination bills again $20k in hundreds is a big wad of cash. Would be much easier in $500 and $1000 bills I know they did away with them mosthy due to organized crime but now most of the crime money wise is either in hacking computers and stealing credit cards fraud or counterfeit bills

 

I would love to collect low mintage, high denomination coins that actually circulate...such as $20, $50, and $100 dollar coins. An embedded RFID tag would make them impossible to counterfeit.

 

Better yet make them have some intrinsic value too like strike the $50 and 100 out of silver and higher denominations of gold

 

Yak , you mean they actually had vending machines when you were a kid . I definitely know they didn't have them when Green was a kid .

 

As recently as one year ago I recall seeing 10c candies in a very-small-town store where I used to live.

Still, if someone in a position of influence were arguing to abolish cents and dimes as notional units--leaving us with fractional dollars as the low-end denominations--I wouldn't argue too much, though I do rather like dime pieces.

 

Right! And we had to walk to school, in the snow, uphill........both ways.

 

... there were vending machines that sold individual sticks of gum?

 

Single sticks of gum , little hershey chocolates , cokes for a nickel if you had a quarter you were rich , if you had a dollar , look out . lol

 

I have wondered that myself. I went to go find some $0.25 gum and could not find any.....even the newspaper is 75 cents instead of 50 like it used to be.

 

The local paper was a half disme when I was a kid.........

 

What's a "newspaper"?

 

I remember being able to get a big bag of chips a candy bar (full size) and a coke for $1 and get change I had to walk a mile uphill in the snow to get to the store tho lol

 

The biggest problem is gas is $3.50 a gallon and diesel is $4 makes everything cost more

 

Ya see? Ya see!

Funny thing. We had a guy over to give us an estimate on some work we'd like to do around the house. While walking up the driveway he spied the local daily at the curb (we get home delivery) and mentioned to me that he thought I must be one of the last people on earth to actually receive the paper as everyone now reads it online. Old habits and technologies die hard..........

 

Actually, we are among the last to follow news. I have spoken to numerous youngsters (under 35) who do cell phones and Inet, and not one of them bothers to read news or even check out a news show on the boob tube. It just isn't as important as YouTube, Facebook or texting.

 

The Half Dime is no longer a US coin denomination. It was eliminated in 1873 by a Coinage Act.

I would welcome the new Half Dime as an alternative to the Jefferson Nickel, but alas, it is unlikely.