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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2138605, member: 59677&quot;]Now that I&#039;ve finished the basic 3cs set, I&#039;m expanding into related items, varieties and exonomina. The seller on eBay doesn&#039;t own it anymore, I do. S/he clearly knew nothing about it. I&#039;ve continued the tradition.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole point of the trime was as a minor silver coin - it&#039;s size was limited in that it couldn&#039;t contain 3c of silver, but had to be big enough to circulate. It was wildly popular at first - 3cs mintages were 5m 1851s, 18m 1852s&nbsp; 11m 1853s. But 1854 and following had much smaller mintages. At the end of the war (1865), 11m 3cns seems to have met the market demand. (4m 1866s, and kept dropping).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m aware of the encased site - I&#039;ve submitted the ? through their ask page -We&#039;ll see. There are several similar bronze ring encasements in the galleries, but they all have adverts. Plus - as I understand it - the hole needs to be somewhat customized for the coin diameter so the encasement process retains it. Just like modern bimetalics. Not sure a 17.9mm dime &#039;blank&#039; would work on the 14mm trime.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are significant manufacturing costs involved ($1+ per piece, you supply the coins in today&#039;s $s), if this was a good for for some transport company I would expect it&#039;s name on the ring. Especially if this was a limited run for staff or management to be able to ride for free [like today&#039;s airline buddy passes]. I have seen railroad badges/passes, but they clearly identify themselves, for example: <a href="http://www.encasedcollectorsinternational.org/album/images%20Gallery/pg%20arc%209-86.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.encasedcollectorsinternational.org/album/images%20Gallery/pg%20arc%209-86.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.encasedcollectorsinternational.org/album/images Gallery/pg arc 9-86.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Chris - your suggestion makes more sense. The size and weight would not be an objection, you wouldn&#039;t expect advertising and the nostalgia might be just right (a coin from your youth, marketed to people in the 1870s...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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