The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 28, July 15, 2007, Article 9

MORE ON THE MYSTERY HALF DOLLAR BOX

Regarding Bill Snyder's mystery half dollar box, Tom DeLorey writes:
"I suspect that it was something privately made for the banking trade.
The interesting question is when. The fact that it is slightly oversized
for a 5x5 grid of modern halves makes me wonder if perchance it was made
for Lettered Edge halves made up until 1836."

"Five capped bust halves measure 6-3/8 inches. Five modern halves
measure 6.0 inches. I doubt we could ever prove it was intended for
bust halves, or a mixture of bust halves and seated halves during
the time they circulated side by side (which, as I understand, was
up to the Civil War), but it is a possibility. Another possibility
is just that they wanted to leave room for the bank teller or cashier
to dig them out of the box easily."

Bill Snyder rechecked his measurements: "Measured with a ruler (my
calipers only extend to 150mm), the interior is basically 160mm by
160mm.     (Divided by 25.4, one gets 6.3", a bit more than the 6.25"
I reported earlier)!

"However, measurements at some points deviated from 160 by as much
as 2mm +/-. That is, the width (for example) at the mid-point is not
exactly the same as the width near either end."

 MYSTERY HALF DOLLAR BOX INFORMATION SOUGHT
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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