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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7726333, member: 66&quot;]Also back before 1837 the only precious metal being struck by the mint was that coming in form depositors (The government didn&#039;t buy metal and strike coins themselves) and as a general rule the mint struck whatever denomination the depositor requested.&nbsp; The bulk of the metal coming in was from importers and banks.&nbsp; They wanted the largest coins possible for ease in counting and storage so they got half dollars.&nbsp; The requests for smaller denominations were much smaller.&nbsp; And in some cases the mint official would try to talk depositor into getting half dollars as it lowered the workload.&nbsp; $100 made into halves was only 200 coins.&nbsp; If you wanted half dimes that was 2,000 coins.&nbsp; Effectively 10 times as much work for the same value in coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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