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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 198326, member: 66&quot;]Seventh time.&nbsp; The other six are the three cent silver, three cent nickel, 1883 no cent V nickel, Capped bust half dime, capped bust dime, and capped bust quarter.&nbsp; Several of the very early silver and gold coins did not express the denomination in words, but they did not express the denomination at all and the people were expected to know the denomination based on the size of the coin.&nbsp; I have not included these in the count.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also several gold coins that expressed the denomination as a number and then the abbreviation D for Dollar.&nbsp; If you include those as part of the not expressed as words the number of previous types rises to five more.&nbsp; (I&#039;m not counting all the small changes to the gold coins and just going by the major types.)&nbsp; So that would bring the new dollar up to the twelfth coin not to express the denomination in words.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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