| Bronze: | Nickel: | ||||
| One-cent piece | Five-cent piece | ||||
| Silver: | Gold: | ||||
| Dollar | = | $1.00 | Double eagle | = | $20.00 |
| Half-dollar | = | 0.50 | Eagle | = | 10.00 |
| Quarter-dollar | = | 0.25 | Half eagle | = | 5.00 |
| Dime | = | 0.10 | Quarter eagle | = | 2.50 |
It may be interesting to know that the word dollar is supposed to have come from Dale, the name of a small town where dollars were first coined.
Dime is from the French word disme, which means tenth.
Cent comes from the Latin word centum, meaning hundred.
Mill is also from the Latin, coming from mille, a thousand.
Eagles were named after our national bird.
Weights of the United States Coins
And the Amounts for Which They are Legal Tender
| GOLD | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Denominations | Weight Grains | Amount for Which a Legal Tender | |
| Double eagle, $20 | 516. | Gold coins of denomination are legal tenders for any amount. | |
| Eagle, $10 | 258. | ||
| Half eagle, $5 | 129. | ||
| Three dollars | 77. | 4 | |
| Quarter eagle, $2.50 | 64. | 5 | |
| Dollars | 25. | 8 | |
| SILVER | |||
| Denominations | Weight Grains | Amount for Which a Legal Tender | |
| Standard dollar | 412. | 5 | Unlimited. |
| Trade Dollar | 420. | Demonetized—Not a legal tender. | |
| Half dollars | 192. | 9 | Ten dollars. |
| Quarter dollars | 96. | 45 | Ten dollars. |
| Twenty-cent pieces | 77. | 16 | Five dollars. |
| Dimes | 38. | 58 | Ten dollars. |
| Half-dimes | 19. | 29 | Five dollars. |
| Three-cent pieces | 11. | 52 | Five dollars. |
| MINOR COINS | |||
| Denominations | Weight Grains | Amount for Which a Legal Tender | |
| Five cents | 77. | 6 | Twenty-five cents. |
| Three cents | 30. | Twenty-five cents. | |
| Two cents | 96. | Twenty-five cents. | |
| Cents | 48. | Twenty-five cents. | |