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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;crystalk64, post: 31839, member: 1873&quot;]I would have to agree with Sylvester on this one. The term originally came with the British twopence due to its large cartwheel size. How many of you have ever actually seen a two ounce coin that actually was put in circulation. Can you imagine carrying 10 or 15 two ounce coins around in your pocket. I am, at this very time, trying to get my hands on a nice example of this coin, due to its huge size and the history that goes along with it. While we do use the term cartwheel, as many of you have described, nothing better illustrates the term than those British coins. And, like it or not, the cart wheel was still very much in use in the late 1800&#039;s, thus the term was born for that particular coin and &quot;cartwheel&quot; has been used for various other coins and or coin descriptions since![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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