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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 464826, member: 4381&quot;]There is more information on this around the net.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done a lot of reading on this topic and can&#039;t find all my resources.&nbsp; Generally I keep intersting resources I find on my webserver, archived at <a href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/resources/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/resources/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mrbrklyn.com/resources/</a> but I haven&#039;t done that for the coin research.&nbsp; Big mistake.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The main thrust of things is that only silver coins were legal tender until a change in the law in 1856 which changed much of the coinage by outlawing or decommissioning the spanish reals and such, and bringing on the small cent.&nbsp; Also affected was the 2 and 3 cent pieces.&nbsp; Evidently though, even the flying eagle wasn&#039;t considered legal because of the lack of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>To get around some of the legal mombo jumbo they also tested several low silver patterns for dismes and half dismes</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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