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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;theSharpGun, post: 1892575, member: 39683&quot;]From what I&#039;ve read a half cent was a significant amount of change for people back in the day. Every half-cent counted in the early 1800&#039;s and had to be accounted for. This is particularly true when citizens were buying groceries. For example if you had a sale of $.10 cents with 5% sales tax you would have a half cent in taxes. The seller would want to get the most out of his good for that half cent while the buyer wouldn&#039;t have wanted the seller to round up so the solution was the half-cent. This is more or less the story I heard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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