Comments on: 5 Cent Piece Designs http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/5-cent-piece-designs/ A premier personal finance blog, established 2003. Within, Flexo discusses his own experiences with money, and he and other authors comment on a wide range of personal finance topics. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: moxi http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/5-cent-piece-designs/comment-page-1/#comment-38 moxi Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:45:44 +0000 http://wp.consumerismcommentary.com/?p=87#comment-38 The sheer variety of spellings in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition are supposed to be pretty impressive as well as indicative of the times. It would be interesting if they'd used the original spelling on the coin. :) I'm glad to see the nickel get some attention, though when I first saw the commercial for the proof sets i thought it was another "government issued" (just not the US govt) "gold clad" American Eagle or something... The sheer variety of spellings in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition are supposed to be pretty impressive as well as indicative of the times. It would be interesting if they’d used the original spelling on the coin. :)

I’m glad to see the nickel get some attention, though when I first saw the commercial for the proof sets i thought it was another “government issued” (just not the US govt) “gold clad” American Eagle or something…

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