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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sundance79, post: 2845070, member: 84413&quot;][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>When I used the word &quot;donomination&quot; I may have been in error.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792" rel="nofollow">Coinage Act of 1792</a> describes milles and other subdivisions of the dollar:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>That the money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28United_States_coin%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_%28United_States_coin%29" rel="nofollow">dismes</a> or tenths, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent_%28United_States_coin%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cent_%28United_States_coin%29" rel="nofollow">cents</a> or hundredths, and milles or thousandths, a disme being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, a <b>mille the thousandth part of a dollar, </b>and that all accounts in the public offices and all proceedings in the courts of the United States shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>So it seems that perhaps at some point the mint had authority to mint a mill (milli) coin but, I suspect, was never directed to do so by congress.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to dig through the archives and see if there was any consideration for such a coin shortly after the Coinage Act was passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event next time I gas up I may pay in cash and see what happens when I try to get ALL my change back right down to the mill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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