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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1823963, member: 44079&quot;]All that is true, but there was also the logistic reality.&nbsp; Quite simply with the post war coin shortage it was easier for the East Coast to get the Nickel than the Silver in the first years after the Civil War.&nbsp; So what we mostly had was five cent (Shield) Nickel pieces being made exclusively at the Philadelphia Mint, and all of the variety IV (1860 - 1873) silver 5 cent Half Dime pieces being made in San Francisco.&nbsp; Outside of places like Chicago for about a decade you&nbsp; got just one&nbsp; or the other as your local change, not both.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This was also true of the 3 cent piece.&nbsp; Originally made everywhere, but after 1865 only the nickel version was available on the East coast while the West coast mints could still get silver so they made the silver 3 cent coin and not the nickel one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Great Crime of 1873 (Coinage Act) eliminated the Silver Dollar, the Half Dime, and the silver 3 cent coin, leaving the Nickel and the Trade Dollar (and for a few more years the nickel 3 cent coin) as the survivors.&nbsp; By then the railroads had already started bringing the nickel coins West.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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