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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 974587, member: 66&quot;]Looks natural.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the name, before thise series neither the dime or the half dime had the denomination on them at all.&nbsp; When the coins were first described in the Act of April 1792 they listed the dollar, the half dollar the quarter dollar,&nbsp; The next coin was the disme which is based on the latin worth for tenth.&nbsp; The next coin weight one half that of the disme an became the half disme. It also made sense to kep the name similar because it was a silver coin, not a base metal coins as in the next two listed.&nbsp; True on the capped bust series they are marked 5C, but on the next and final series they are once again called, and this time clearly labeled, half dime.</p><p><br /></p><p>So a better question would be &quot;Why were these marked 5C when they were half dimes?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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