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Sam Houston 10 most important facts?

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Who invented the dime?

"Invented" usually refers to creating a mechanical or electronic device rather than a static item such as a coin. The 10-cent coin came about as part of a decimal-based currency system suggested by Thomas Jefferson. The original proposal was to have coin denominations in multiples of 10, with "half" values in between. The smallest denomination was to be called a mill, with these ratios: 10 mills = 1 cent 10 cents = 1 dime 10 dimes = 1 dollar 10 dollars = 1 eagle 10 eagles = 1 union Then there would also be half cents, half dimes, half dollars, etc. As things worked out the mill was too low in value and the union was too high to be useful, but all the other denominations were issued at one time or another, so the dime was simply one of a much larger set of possible coins. Today of course prices are never expressed in dimes. The word "dime" is simply the name of the coin just like nickel or quarter. Interesting trivia: the coin's original name was "disme", pronounced "DIZ-muh", and based on the French word for one-tenth. That didn't sound right to English-speaking ears and the S was soon dropped.


Facts about the great plains of Texas?

it is colder than other parts of Texas the great plains run through 10 states it is leveled land with few or no tree sorry but that's all i got


What where Missouri sales tax receipt coins used for?

the coins called mills originally made of zink during the second warld war this metal became scarce so the last ones minted were plastic, they came in denominations of 1 5 10 , if the sales tax was 1 % then you needed 10 mills for a dollar. and one mill for each 10 cents over that, when they were abolished the state did offer to buy them back at face value, but there was a time limit to cash them in The reverse of the large token says "This receipt shows that you are helping to pay for old age pensions, support of public schools, care of poor, insane, and tubercular patiients, in-State hospitals and relief of need, unemployed in the State of Missouri."