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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John the Jute, post: 630907, member: 17740&quot;]Here&#039;s an answer from a different point of view: not my own preferences but observations of others.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The coins in history which have actually inspired HATRED seem to be those with a political message, express or implied.&nbsp; During the English Civil War, the King&#039;s coinage had his six-word slogan on the reverse, in Latin naturally; Parliament&#039;s coinage had inscriptions in English, to emphasize how non-Catholic it was.&nbsp; The King&#039;s supporters called Parliament&#039;s coinage &quot;breeches money&quot;--this was not intended to be polite.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Did the same happen in the War Between the States?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At a lower level of emotion, most all coins less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter have in their time inspired ANNOYANCE at being too small for practical use.&nbsp; The US dime--and its UK equivalent the 5 pence piece--are just about on the irritability boundary.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Later,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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