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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 9133, member: 57463&quot;]All of that was a bit misleading.&nbsp; Your enthusiasm is beyond question, of course.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No one in Anglo-Saxon times spoke anything like the word &quot;dek&quot; to mean ten.&nbsp; The words they used (dialects varied with place) sounded more like &quot;ten.&quot; (&quot;dek&quot; would have meant &quot;deck&quot; or &quot;roof&quot; or &quot;thatch&quot; if it was spoken at all.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The American CENT is called a PENNY because the first cents were about the same size as the British copper pennies of the time.&nbsp; Even though the cent was reduced in size, the word was fixed in popular meaning.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first nickel coins were not &quot;sandwiches.&quot;&nbsp; As was noted earlier, and is well recorded in books about American coins, the first small cents were called &quot;nicks&quot; because of their nickel alloy.&nbsp; Nickel is an interesting word itself.&nbsp; You might want to read about it, perhaps in a book about the history of chemisty.&nbsp; Breen gives his own spin, of course.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you build your numismatic library, you will find plenty of fuel for your fire.&nbsp; You clearly are a passionate collector.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael</p><p>ANA R-162953[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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