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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 1823902, member: 307&quot;]They only did in fact. They didn&#039;t really circulate side by side.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is by no means definitive, or all-inclusive as an answer, but it helps explain things.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the western US, money was more the gold and silver coins. There, the people wanted hard money and it was more available because it actually circulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the eastern US, people hoarded hard money and most of what was able to circulate were coins like the copper nickel cents, three and five cent pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Mint made them side by side until the copper nickel pieces began to circulate everywhere. If you look at the mintages of the coins, all of the copper nickel pieces were made (by law) at Philadelphia only and many of the silver coins were made at San Francisco and Carson City and this follows their circulation patterns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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