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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 134908, member: 1674&quot;]From the 18th century up until the early 1870&#039;s the value of coins was very closely related to the value of the metal found in them. half cents and cents for copper, then trimes, half dimes, dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars were in proportion size-wise to each other since they were all silver and the gold dollars, quarter eagles, 3 dollars, half eagles, eagles and double eagles were in proportion to each oher since they were all gold coins.&nbsp; The advent of the 3 cent nickel and the 5 cent nickel followed the old method and since they were less intrinsically valuable than the silver coins they were made to be larger.&nbsp; As the denominations wee slowly weeded down to what we have today silver got expensive again and it was removed from coinage.&nbsp; To keep the simplicity of people being able to recognize their change, the sizes were left the same as they had been.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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