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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treylxapi47, post: 2209709, member: 41863&quot;]Good question. Looks like the book covers that topic!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.doubledimes.com/Introduction.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.doubledimes.com/Introduction.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.doubledimes.com/Introduction.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>From the previous link:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1.1 The Origin of the Denomination</b> </p><p><br /></p><p>A silver coin with a value of twenty cents, also known at the time as a double disme1 , was among those pieces first proposed to Congress to be coined by a new national mint. The Mint began striking copper cents and half cents in 1793, half dismes, half dollars, and dollars in 1794, and it was not until 1796 that other fractional silver coins were produced. By this time, however, the double disme had been replaced by a quarter dollar as the piece to sit between the disme and half dollar. It was not until another 78 years had passed that the twenty-cent piece was considered seriously by Congress in 1874. The following year the denomination was finally produced. Its life, however, was short. Only sixteen months after the law authorizing its production was signed by the President, a bill was introduced to the House of Representatives to repeal the authorization of the Mint to coin twenty-cent pieces. Although its reality as a denomination was brief, several times since the decision to establish the Mint, the idea of a twenty-cent denomination has arisen. </p><p><br /></p><p>And the footnote for those curious as to what was mentioned there:</p><p><br /></p><p>1The term <i>disme</i> would later fall out a favor and be replaced with <i>dime</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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