Not sure who the founder was but my great grandfather Samuel Rufus Goans was the CEO until Eagle stores was purchased by another discount store chain.
Intially the US currency was meant to be decimal based with five denominations - the Mil, the Cent, the Dime, the Dollar and the Eagle. The Mil, however, was never produced as a separate coin. There were to be 10 Mils to the Cent, 10 Cents to the Dime, 10 Dimes to the Dollar and 10 Dollars to the Eagle. Thus a 20 Dollar coin would be the equivalent of 2 Eagles - a "Double Eagle."
Please check the back of your coin. You'll find its denomination is five cents, not ten, so it's a nickel rather than a dime. Please post a new question with its date and whether there's a small D or S underneath the words FIVE CENTS.
It's a Liberty Head Nickel not a dime, the "V" on the reverse is the Roman numeral 5 if the coin is so worn down you can't see the words Five Cents under the V the value is likely only 10 to 20 cents.
the five original members of the council: The U.S.A. the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China
He was jailed for his part in the Pullman Strike. His five presidential campaigns were unsuccessful he ran for president five times *he founded the international workers of the world to make laborers powerful.
F.W. Woolworth created the first successful five and dime store
Yes, but you won't find much for a nickel or a dime any more. We have a "five and ten" locally.
American 'Five and Dime' store names:Ben Franklin StoresG.C. MurphyH.L. GreenJ.J. Newberry'sKresgeMcCrory'sMcLellan'sVidler's 5 & 10Woolworth (a.k.a. F.W. Woolworth Company)W.T. Grant
Sam Walton
Walton's five and dime was the name of Sam Walton's stores in the 1950's prior to the first Wal-Mart in 1962.
Sam Walton's first five and dime store was located in Bentonville, Arkansas. The location now features the Walmart visitor center where the original five and dime store once sat.
In 1945 Sam Walton opened his first variety store which he named Walton's Five and Dime.
Frank W. Woolworth started his five-and-ten-cent variety store chain in 1879.
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The "five and ten" was another name for a "dime" store. This type of store used to be Kresge or Woolworth Stores. Those stores grew into Kmart, etc. Now, we have the "dollar" store, where many things cost more than a dollar.