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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsden, post: 1439605, member: 38010&quot;]That will be very cool if and when you can do it. Meanwhile what you have shown is neat too. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve always been mystified that so many (almost all?) coin diameter measures are such random numbers.&nbsp; The half dollar, for example: <i>Diameter</i>, 30.61 mm (1.205 in); the quarter <i>Diameter</i> (24.26 mm (0.955 in) ; dime 17.91 mm (0.705 in) etc etc.&nbsp; Not remotely standard measures in inches or metric.&nbsp; At least the standard silver dollar is 1.5 inches exactly, right? </p><p><br /></p><p>The older (larger) half dollars are &quot;approx 32.5 mm&quot; whic h equals 1.2795 inches so even then it was seemingly random.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure some expert here can clarify this for me.&nbsp; Even if it pertained to the weight of the silver, that wasn&#039;t strictly 90/10 in the early days so that could easily have been manipulated, as could the coin&#039;s thickness. </p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The United States is the only industrialized country that does not use&nbsp; the metric system as its official system of measurement, although the&nbsp; metric system has been officially sanctioned for use since 1866.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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