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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 4846649, member: 66&quot;]The Mint was under Thomas Jefferson, Sec of State, not Hamilton Sec of Treasury.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s because it&#039;s the same coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But they made a lot more dollars than they did dimes. (1,446,196 dollars compared to 469,406 dimes 1794 - 1804)&nbsp; That was because the mint made what the depositor wanted, and most of the large depositors wanted dollars.&nbsp; (At the time the mint had no gold or silver of their own and only coined bullion that citizens, businesses, and banks deposited.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The King of Siam coin was the LAST of the 1804 dollars to come to light, in 1962.&nbsp; The first came to collectors attention in 1842 and I believe 14 of the 15 known coins were known before the end of the 19th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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