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Out of circulation since the start of the War, and supplanted somewhat by the three-cent nickel introduced in 1865, the trime was abolished by the Mint Act of 1873 (although proof coins were produced in that year).
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There's no trime travel in Star Wars as well as no fight for leadership amongst allies, to name two of the biggest differences.
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The composition of the trime was designed to satisfy the need for sub-dollar coins in commerce, with enough silver to be considered a precious-metal coin but not so much that they too would be melted.
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Called a trime in some Treasury Department records, the three cent silver coin was the smallest ever issued by the U.S. in terms of weight and thickness.
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All silver coins circulated more abundantly following the 1853 weight reduction, a situation that probably contributed to a reduced demand for the trime.
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Called a trime in some Treasury Department records, the three cent silver coin was the smallest ever issued by the U.S. in terms of weight and thickness.
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Out of circulation since the start of the War, and supplanted somewhat by the three-cent nickel introduced in 1865, the trime was abolished by the Mint Act of 1873 although proof coins were produced in that year.
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The composition of the trime was designed to satisfy the need for sub-dollar coins in commerce, with enough silver to be considered a precious-metal coin but not so much that they too would be melted.
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Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in which there can be felt the mixture of the two preceding elements, the direct creation and the metaphor: le cab jaspine, je marronne que la roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri, the dog is barking, I suspect that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods.
Les Miserables 2008
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Je trime a dit le muguet/I slave away, said the lily of the valley
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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