Talk:Dime (United States coin)

message: There is no such italian word. The italian word for "tenth" is "decimo". A search on Google for the word "dilmashe" shows that its unique occurence is in this wikipedia article.  213.200.99.158 (talk) 11:24, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian word "dilmashe" 

message: That's a quote from the article.  Now, I'm not going to change a FA without a source to back me up, but I know that the latest date which appears on silver dimes is 1964, not 1966.  My understanding was that they started minting the current crap-metal in 1965, immediately stopping the use of silver, which had spiked in price.  RobertAustin 02:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dimes with this [90% silver] composition were minted until 1966." 

message: Why is the dime the smallest US coin?
--Historical reasons, mostly. Even in the 1790s, making a one-cent piece that contained one cent worth of silver would have been highly impractical, as the coin would have been tiny. Even the half-disme (the original US five-cent piece) was almost impractically small. When the half-dime (as it was then spelled) was phased out in 1873, the dime was the smallest-denomination precious-metal coin remaining in circulation. As silver prices rose over the years, the dime (and other US silver coinage) got marginally lighter to prevent intrinsic value from exceeding face value. In the early 1960s, with silver prices on the rise yet again, the Mint could no longer keep producing the coins (dimes, quarters, and half dollars) in their then-current form and maintain the value relationship. When "coin silver" (.900 fine) was removed from circulating US coinage in 1964 (half dollars remained silver-clad for another six years), the coins then in circulation all remained the same size so as to avoid confusion. This is why the dime has retained its historical size, and why it's historically the smallest US coin.
Incidentally, the one-cent piece underwent a similar transformation in 1982. Copper prices had risen to the point where the intrinsic value of a copper one-cent piece approached one cent, and the Mint decided it would be more economical to use copper-plated zinc planchets. Modern cents are less than 10 percent copper, but have retained their historical (since 1856) size and appearance. --clawson
some mention of the 'dyme' tithe ought to be referenced here, as i believe that led to the name of the coin.
:The article is quite clear about the origin of the name. It has nothing to do with the tithe, though the tithe and the coin likely share a common root ("one-tenth").—chris.lawson (talk) 03:29, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the dime the smallest US coin? 

message: OK, I'm new at this, and so this may have previously been discussed and/or discussed elsewhere.  My question is: why aren't there pix of older dimes (Mercury, etc.)? -- Sholom 13:42, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. Im not really sure, I would assume no one either has old ones, or cant take a pic.  I have a few mrecurys and barbers I can try to do pics from, if no one else does.  But last time I tried pics my sliver eagle looked gold :(  Joe I 21:13, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I have some advice to anyone who might try this. Use a scanner, rather than a camera. I've had great success with using a scanner for circuit boards and I much prefer it to a camera. You can get better resolution with a scanner in most cases, too. (Unless you're one of those guys who has a $5000 digital camera and a photography studio.)--chris.lawson 04:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, so, the main answer is that if pix are available, there's no problem putting pix of older coins on all these coin pages -- at least that's how I'm understanding this. -- Sholom 04:19, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I learned the scanner trick a couple weeks ago :).  Anyways, no problem with the old pics.  Please don't clutter the page, and check to see if the seris coin has it's own page, such as United States Seated Liberty coinage, mercury and barbers should have thier own page as well, but don't.  But this article sure could use some pics.  :)  Joe I 04:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, so I found a Mercury Dime image on a US Mint Page, uploaded it to commons (but it has the file name as the name -- can I rename it), and then linked to it here.  Success.  (But it took too much work! ;) ) Sholom 14:16, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

text: And I messed up.  I accidentally uploaded another obverse image to the reverse image name.  I didn't know how to delete it.  So then I uploaded the reverse image to yet another name.  Oy! Sholom 14:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure you can rename it between the download and upload, or on the upload, not sure.  If you can/do, please make it something recognizable, like 1905MerceryDimeRev or something like that.  THNX :)  Joe I 21:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is: now that it's already there, how do I rename it?  Or delete it and start again? -- Sholom 21:50, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Damn, lots of colons, hehe.  Anyways, Im pretty sure can't remane once it's on the servers, have to reupload.  Joe I 22:30, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pix? 

message: I failed this article for WP:GA for several reasons
* Lack of references
* Nothing much in content, like importance, etc, only explains it's history
* Should the List of designs section go on the bottom?
Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 21:52, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've addressed the issues.  Have another look?  Joe  I 07:41, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failed GA 

message: I cleaned up the text in this section a bit.  One of the things I did was remove the bit about Roosevelt being afflicted with polio, as this apparently was an incorrect diagnosis.  --cholmes75 (chit chat) 16:37, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roosevelt section 

message: OK, I'll bite. Who was first to decimalise their coinage?--chris.lawson 00:43, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Decimalisation --Chochopk 03:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I read that about five minutes after I posted the query here. Thanks. :) --chris.lawson 03:20, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  US not first with decimal coinage? 

message: If anyone can find a picture of the Roosevelt bust designed by Selma Burke, I think it would be a great addition to the article.  --cholmes75 (chit chat) 14:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The original plaque is still in the Recorder of Deeds Building at 515 D Street, NW, in Washington, DC. Perhaps a DC-area Wikipedian with a digicam could be convinced to stop by and photograph it. Don't we have a page somewhere for this sort of thing? (If not, we should.)--chris.lawson 16:10, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I will keep an eye here. I'm waiting for a date for tax court in DC, if we don't have a pic by the time I go, I'll stop by and snap off a real good one. Bobby 19:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The requested Image has been added by someone. Wikidenizen 19:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image request 

message: Regarding the passage - "Although most commonly referred to as the "Mercury" dime, the coin does not depict the Roman messenger god, nor does it contain any mercury."
I have never heard of anyone thinking that the dime contained mercury, which is why I removed the text in the first place.  Are there any references available that indicate that this was actually an issue?  --cholmes75 (chit chat) 20:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've personally been asked a few times by non-numismatists if it did include any mercury. It's not really hurting anything, I don't think.--chris.lawson 22:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough.  When this does get put for review as a Featured Article, I was just thinking that they might ask that very question.  --cholmes75 (chit chat) 22:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

text: As a "non-numismatist(?)" I wondered that very thing, so I'm glad I read it here. I think it's also interesting how some of my foreign friends have been confused as to the coin's value, since it says nowhere on its face or back "10 cents".--Jd147703 15:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I think what would be interesting to include (although it might be tough to research and/or verify) is how long the "Mercury" dime remained in common circulation after the Roosevelt dime began to be minted? I'm sure there was an overlap of at least several years in which both the Mercury and Roosevelt dimes were in circulation. [[Briguy52748 12:38, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to add to the article the point, mentioned above, about the coin not showing it's value. I'm glad I'm not the only one to have noticed this: as a Brit who's travelled in more countries than I can remember right now, this is the only piece of currency I've ever handled (yuan included) that didn't show its value - I had to ask the guy at the till what it was. JackyR | Talk 19:50, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mercury dimes weren't hard to find in pocket change right up to the late 60's when all silver coins disappeared from circulation. Nibios (talk) 02:14, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I can understand how this would be unclear to foreigners, but to us Americans it's a non-issue because "one dime" has been used here to mean "ten cents" for far long than any of us have been alive. In fact, the dime does have its value marked: it's defined by US law that "dime" is the term for a 10 cent coin. When US currency was created, it was given 4 base units. The cent, the dime, the dollar, and the eagle (10 dollars). The eagle is now defunct, but the rest remain intact. Think of it like with British pre-decimal currency: everybody over there knew that a shilling was equal to 12 pence, so there was no need to mark a shilling coin with anything other than "one shilling". 75.76.213.106 (talk) 08:52, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mercury dime 

message: Dime is the Numismatic Collaboration for the month of August.  This article is very close to FA, with only a few minor technical things to be fixed(I believe).  You can find a peer review here.  Joe  I 11:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Collaboration

message: I'm currently (at this moment) reviewing the dime article for a good article status.  There are some issues with the lead section (see WP:Lead section) as well as some other minor details that need to be changed.  I am currently working to fix these issues (as a reviewer, I am allowed to make non-significant contributions to the article). --Kurt 00:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I rewrote the lead section of the basis of WP:Lead section which states "The lead should be capable of standing alone as a concise overview of the article", and also added some silver dime date freeze info as well. The article is well written and well referenced but the General History is section is a bit repetitive.  I can see that it was somewhat intended to do what a lead section is supposed to do.  The only thing IMO that is preventing this article from being a good article is what to do about the General history section.  I will post this on the Numismatics talk page as well. --Kurt 05:42, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Failed again, issues not resolved. Rlevse 19:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you please elaborate on these issues. List them out, so they can be addressed and crossed out as they're worked on.  And with all the particapation we have on this page, could you please allow us a week lead time, to fix these issues.  Most GA nominees(especially long ones) are placed on hold for curtesy reasons, and really trying to improve this page instead of just shooting it down, which has happened twice now.  We would appreciate it, and we will work on any and all issues.  Joe  I 23:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article review 

message: because I thought that I saw that this was a serious article and I thought I might have a couple of small points to add.  Oaky, I added them, but, you got to be kidding!  There are sentences in here with 3 and another with 4 footnotes or references or WHATEVER  - -  for one sentence.  What sort of BS is that?  If anyone wants this article to be seriously considered for anything except for printing and recycling through the outhouse, those footnotes have to be  . . . . slashed and burned. The preceeding is a drunken  opinion by  Carptrash 06:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the one sentence with four refs(moved two to another sentence).  I don't three viable refs on one sentence is to much.  Thanks for your edits tho.  Joe  I 16:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I came here to edit 

message: It seems the Featured Article reviewers have seen fit to promote this article, which makes the rejections by the Good Article reviewers that much more baffling.  Anyway, congrats to all who helped!  --cholmes75 (chit chat) 14:20, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article was top notch for a long time. I'm just glad it's all over with minimum fuss. Thanks for all your help.  :)  Joe  I 05:40, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice work all! 

message: I cant find the cost of production
Immcarle163 (talk) 00:12, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  COST? 

message: Ten points to whoever edited that in.  A lot more professional than "the front side" or worse, "the top". Paul Haymon 00:21, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obverse 

message: The term "former president" generally is reserved for living ex-presidents, and is not necessary or usual in the case of someone like FDR, who is an internationally known figure in history and who has been deceased for more than 60 years. One would not say "former President Abraham Lincoln" is on the penney, and even in the case of JFK, who was much more recent, one would not refer to "former President Kennedy" being on the half-dollar. Sca 03:10, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: FDR

message: I was bold and included a link to the motto E pluribus unum including some text (since I at first had no idea what it meant and why it was on the reverse). 
Since I put it at the end of the first paragraph I am not sure this is a suitable location - perhaps this should be in a section of its own? Has there been many mottos (is it mottos in plural?) or always this one? 
Perhaps the motto should be in the info-box? I know many coins have mottos and perhaps they need links to mottos aswell . // PER9000 07:42, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motto [[E pluribus unum]] 

message: No one's going to mention this famous Depression-era song? Brutannica 18:12, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "[[Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?]]"

message: The article for the Canadian dime has a nice table summarizing the changes made to the coin's composition and size.  Perhaps the list of designs that appears in this article could be expanded into a similar table?  153.104.209.224 00:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I know this is topic necromancy. I came to ask if someone could provide the history of composition and mass for the various changes in design, and found the comment above. I've just checked the Canadian dime article's table, and I must agree that such a table, showing the designs, dimensions, masses, and compositions through the years would be a welcome addition here. Indeed, it would be a welcome edition to all articles about coins that have gone through similar changes over the years. Joe Avins (talk) 13:59, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of design history 

message: When I read that description for the model of the "Capped Bust" dime I was
SURE that was vandalism.  Then I checked the reference.  It isn't.  Startling. Bigmac31 21:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fat German mistress 

message: I have added refs to the sentences on the 1996 West Point dime. I have rewritten and removed this clause: they are not particularly scarce. To me this does not seem NPOV. - Thanks, Hoshie 05:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  1996-W dime 

message: All repaired. Collect (talk) 13:10, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  CoinSite links 

message: That huge list at the bottom of the article looks... um... ugly. What are the conventions pertaining to this? Should we change it to a table? Leon math (talk) 00:19, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I've hated that list and others like it for a long time.  If you would like to take a stab at making it presentable, please go for it. I'm sure anything would be better.  Joe I 06:21, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

text: could I suggest a separate article pertaining to mintage figures on all coins?  The US Quarter page has this type of list too, so this may not be an isolated event.  Penguinflag (talk) 09:55, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I agree, the list is awful and should be be split off.  Tempshill (talk) 19:58, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

text: It'd certainly look prettier as a table, but I'm not sure it's appropriate for the article regardless - it's just too detailed. Drop it on wikisource somewhere? A graph of mintings over time might be interesting, though, as an illustration... Shimgray | talk | 20:05, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bullet list 

message: Ugh, what a mess. Nearly every other paragraph is unsourced, there are maybe 17 cites overall, half to the seemingly unreliable coinsite.com. Furthermore, I'm seeing maintenance tags and at least one external link within the text of the article (under "Seated Liberty (1837–1891)"). Does anyone wanna take this one to FAR? Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 02:27, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  FA? 

message: Is this section really necessary? More than half the article is a list of data taken directly from a single site. That might be worthy of a link, but I don't see a need for complete inclusion. The nickel article has the same issue. (Several Canadian coin articles include mintage figures, but only for commemorative editions and in tables with more information.)  Kanhef (talk) 04:32, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mintage figures 

message: I cleaned up the article and removed some of the repitive information. RHM22 (talk) 18:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaned up the article 

message: The inclusion of this sentence: "2009 saw the lowest dime production since 1955 with just 146,000,000 dimes being made," at the end of the paragraph talking about the campaigns to have Ronald Reagan's image put on the dime seems odd, and it could be misleading to some people. First of all, it's not relevant to the rest of the information in the paragraph. What does low dime production have to do with the campaign to put Reagan on the dime? Second, the sentence's inclusion in this paragraph could seem to imply to some readers that these two unrelated facts are somehow related--that since the campaign to put Reagan on the dime eventually failed, that has resulted in low dime production--but there's no evidence anywhere to support that. I suggest moving this sentence to a different, more appropriate paragraph. 150.108.160.61 (talk) 02:12, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading Sentence Placement

message: The article claims that the Capped Bust dime is "the only dime minted with an explicit indication of its value", since all subsequent dimes have been marked "ONE DIME". But this isn't accurate because "one dime" is the value. "Dime" is the official term for 1/10 of a US dollar, just like "cent" is the official term for 1/100 of a dollar. 24.214.230.66 (talk) 06:32, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capped Bust 

message: So no other countries use the term "dime" for a coin with a vwlue of 1/10 of a dollar?
Where are the articles for those other denominations?
Where are the disambiguation links?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime Bobby I'm Here, Are You There? 03:51, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good to see you!  There is the Canadian dime, but I would have no objection to a move to ... dime.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:18, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States Coin? huh? 

message: Under the heading "Franklin D. Roosevelt (1946–present)", it states "Another controversy surrounding Sinnock's design involves his image of Roosevelt. Soon after the coin's release, it was claimed that Sinnock borrowed his design of Roosevelt from a bas relief created by African American sculptor Selma Burke, unveiled at the Recorder of Deeds Building in Washington, D.C. in September 1945. Sinnock denied this, claiming that he simply utilized his earlier design on the Roosevelt medal."  There are a few problems with this.  First is the undue weight it places upon a claimed controversy for which there is one rather weak source provided (and one that cannot be examined in context unless one happens to own or obtain a copy of a magazine issue from 8 years ago).  Where are the contemporaneous mentions of this "controversy"?  The second problem is the claim itself, and third is the way it states that Sinnock responded to it, using the phrase "Sinnock...claimed that he simply utilized his earlier design..."  "Claiming" something implies uncertainty about something being factual (e.g., Bill Clinton claimed that he did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky).  Sinnock's portrait of Roosevelt for the Presidential Medal and for the dime are far more similar to each other than to Burke's portrait.  Both of Sinnock's designs differ from Burke's in the shape of the forehead, nose, eyes, lips and hair and are as different from hers as is possible from two different bas relief portraits in profile, of the same person at the same age.  Since the onus is upon the editor who is making the assertion of a "controversy" from 70 years ago, I think we need to see more than just one source from 2006.  If that can't be provided, the paragraph should be significantly edited down.  Either way, Sinnock's response should be stated without violating WP:NPOV. Occam's Shaver (talk) 00:27, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selma Burke "controversy" 

message: This page seems to have the 2013 dime as its obverse image. Why hasn't it been replaced with the new design created by the US mint? I uploaded the 2014 dime to add to this page if anyone feels inclined to update the current image. Replaceinkcartridges (talk) 03:40, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  2014 dime 

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