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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2209848, member: 15062&quot;]So, in the 1700&#039;s the proposed twenty cent coin, that was never produced, was called Double Dime (Disme).&nbsp; The second proposal to Congress for the coin in 1806 also used the term Double Dime.&nbsp; However, in 1875 when things got serious the official terminology was Twenty Cent Piece and when it actually went into production Congress and the Mint called it the Twenty Cent Piece.&nbsp; However, when it quickly went out of favor many newspapers referred to it as the Double Dime.&nbsp; From this I conclude that the public knew it as the Double Dime.&nbsp; I think I&#039;ll use that term from now on; it rolls off the tongue much easier than Twenty Cent Piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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