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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 787516, member: 6036&quot;]Interesting question.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think Mike is right on, if we restrict ourselves to US Mint coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>But let&#039;s remember - until 1857, all sorts of coinage was circulating in the US. Those coins were from all over the world. That&#039;s especially true in the earliest days of the United States, and before (the late colonial period). One of the favorites was the Spanish Pillar Dollar (piece of eight).</p><p><br /></p><p>Also... before our current Constitution, we operated under the Articles of Confederation, which allowed states to coin their own money. And coin they did ! So we have coins from New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Massachussetts etc which were part of our circulating coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>So in those days there was quite a melange, quite a pot pourri of stuff moving around.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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