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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8274674, member: 85693&quot;]Not a stupid question at all - I tend to think of a &quot;cartwheel&quot; as being the massive copper issues of 1797.&nbsp; The 1806 in the OP is quite a bit smaller.&nbsp; But the term is a loose one and could probably be applied to any large coin as a kind of numismatic slang (for instance, Morgan/Peace silver dollars are called &quot;cartwheels&quot; sometimes as well).&nbsp; They are all pretty large coins: </p><p><br /></p><p>1797 penny and penny and twopence:</p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces947.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces947.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces947.html</a></p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1287.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1287.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1287.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>1806 penny: </p><p><a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12981.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12981.html" rel="nofollow">https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12981.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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