The United States has several coins and banknotes which were proposed at one time but never adopted.
A three dollar bill was proposed two times during the 1860s. A design was engraved for a potential $3 United States Note, and a 1865 law called for a $3 National Bank Note, but neither proposal came to fruition.[citation needed]
Denomination | Obverse | Reverse | Notes |
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$3 note | Not to be confused with fake or privately issued obsolete notes or the three-dollar Continental currency banknotes issued during the American Revolution |
There have been several United States coins which were proposed but never adopted. Most of the coins listed below, although never adopted, were produced in limited numbers as patterns.
Denomination | Obverse | Reverse | Weight | Diameter | Material | Edge | Minted | Notes |
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Silver center cent 1¢ |
4.48 g | 24.00 mm | Cu (ring) Ag (plug) |
reeded | 1792 | The first and only US bi-metallic coin until the 2000 Library of Congress ten dollar coin. | ||
Ring cent 1¢ |
various weights | 90% Cu
10% Ag[a] |
various | 1850–1851, 1853[b], 1884–1885 | 196 ring cents (originals and restrikes) are known to exist.[1] Examples exist with or without a hole. | |||
Aluminum cent 1¢ |
0.937 g | 19.05 mm | 96% Al 4% trace metals |
plain | 1973–1975 | 1,579,324 coins dated 1974 were produced, but were not put in circulation and nearly all were later destroyed.[2] | ||
Two-cent billon 2¢ |
3.84 g | ~13.00 mm | 90% Cu 10% Ag |
plain | 1836 | [3] | ||
Two and a half cent piece 2.5¢ |
unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | never minted | Proposed in 1916 by US mint director Robert W. Woolley.[4] Civil War tokens of this denomination exist. | ||
Three-cent bronze 3¢ |
10.89 g | 28.57 mm | 95% Cu 5% Zn |
plain | 1863 | |||
Ring nickel 5¢ |
plain | 1884–1885 | [5][6] | |||||
Gold ring half dollar 50¢ |
1852 | [7] | ||||||
Gold ring dollar $1 |
1849, 1852 | [8][9] | ||||||
Two dollar piece $2 |
unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | never minted | Proposed but not minted.[10] Some privately struck renditions exist.[11] | ||
Stella $4 |
7.00 g | 22 mm | 6.00g Au 0.30g Ag 0.70g Cu |
reeded | 1879–1880 | [12] | ||
Half-union $50 |
83.58 g | 50.80 mm | 90% Au 10% Cu[c] |
reeded | 1877 | Commemorative coins of this denomination were issued in 1915.[14]
Several bullion coins are produced in this denomination. | ||
Union $100 |
unknown | unknown | 90% Au 10% Cu |
unknown | never minted | Canceled before any patterns could be minted (fantasy coin shown).
Some commemorative and bullion coins are minted in this denomination. |
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