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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3079228, member: 59677&quot;]A stamp...</p><p><br /></p><p>In a world where most lived on farms far from the city, you didn&#039;t have store-bought postage stamps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Instead you left your letter with some coins on top for the postman to pick up and apply a stamp.</p><p><br /></p><p>When they lowered the postage rate - yes,&nbsp; this has happened at least once in US history - the half dime wouldn&#039;t do and the postman would have needed heavy bags of large cents for change.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in 1851 the 3 cent silver, the trime, or fishscale, was born. At 14 mm it&#039;s the smallest silver coin the u.s. ever minted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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