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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3007419, member: 59677&quot;]Oh, sometimes they have... for example lowering the weight of the trime to 0.75g and increasing the fineness to 0.900 from 0.80g and 0.750 fine in 1854... the Coinage Act of March 3, 1853, which lowered the weight of the half dime to half dollar (<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&amp;fileName=010/llsl010.db&amp;recNum=181" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&amp;fileName=010/llsl010.db&amp;recNum=181" rel="nofollow">http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&amp;fileName=010/llsl010.db&amp;recNum=181</a>) makes no mention of the trime.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;ll grant you that was several years ago and the statute of limitations expired long ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there was the redesigns of 1916 when the mint erroneously thought the law REQUIRED redesign after 25 years instead of merely permitting it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But certainly, in recent years, the coin laws have specified - in sometimes nauseating detail - the precise design of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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