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I had always assumed that was a man on the Special Olympics Dollar. Oops. I supposed I had better look up some information on it now.
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WE've become accustomed to having new coins minted every year. Aside from coppers, there were loooong stretches where no silver coins were minted at all. When I picked up an 1829 Half Dime, I was amazed that there had not been a Half Dime minted since 1805. Similarly, dollar coins were not minted from 1804 until the first Seated Liberty dollars were coined in 1840. There were a few Gobrecht dollars, but it's my understanding that those were basically pattern coins, and didn't see circulation in any meaningful way. That's decades ... not years between issues. Chance |
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we didn't mint any dollar coins from 1981 to 1999
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@Sutler, Nolan Ryan is alive and well, and is the owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team.
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It was 58 years from when the Two Cent Piece was first proposed, in 1806, until it reached production in 1864. |
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Quote:It was 58 years from when the Two Cent Piece was first proposed, in 1806, until it reached production in 1864. Talk about government efficiency  |
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In Britain 1797 a two-pence coin was struck using modern steam powered presses. It weighed 56.7 grammes of copper making them the heaviest British general circulation coins. 722,160 were minted with 1797 the only year of production.
I melted one down and used the metal because it was so worn out but I want to find another in decent condition one day...
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The first million dollar coin was a 5 cent piece minted in 1913 bought for $1,315,000 by Kansas City, MO dealer Jay Parrino.
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fac·toid (fktoid) n.1. A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition.
2. Usage Problem A brief, somewhat interesting fact.
I find it funny that we have had examples to satisfy both definitions. 
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Joseph Wright, who designed the Liberty Cap Large Cent, sunk the dies for the first coins, and died before the first coin for circulation was struck.
I believe I read where he came to the mint's employ in August 1793, and died in September, when yellow fever swept through Philadelphia.
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08/13/2012 2:05 pm
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I don't consider models to be "real" insofar as "oh, it's really so-and-so on this coin." If we're saying that, then the Sherlock Holmes stories need to be rewritten to be about Dr. Joseph Bell, for example, and we need to rename a certain billion-dollar company in the comics world to "Downey Industries" instead of Stark. Models--and I say this as somebody who used to sit for friends who were animation majors (I've been Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, half a dozen original characters and Mickey and Minnie Mouse)--are not the people you see in the end product. I'm blonde and wear headbands, but I'm not Alice, and I'm certainly not Mickey. The women who sat for Liberty had certain things in common with the final product, but none of them are Liberty. And yeah, I didn't count commems. There are so many of those, and the very existence of the First Spouse coins would make the factoid irrelevant if we counted commems. As for Helen Keller, you guys DO know, of course, that there are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't. Here's another: Although the buffalo made a reappearance on our nickels in 2005, there are college-educated people who do not recognise the original Indian/buffalo nickel as US coinage. I've met four of them. Edited by ninamason
08/13/2012 2:52 pm
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Factoid: US dimes minted during World War II featured one of the main symbols of fascism - in fact, the very one this ideology is named after! (Side-factoid: almost the same image appears on some coins from Mussolini-era Italy.) ...This one goes much better with an audience which doesn't know the difference between fascists and Nazis; basically, the former were mostly based in Italy. Neither, of course, has anything to do with the Mercury dime, which was designed in 1916 - well before any such connotations! |
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Excellent information, january1may!  |
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Only two women have ever appeared on our coinage: Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony. (Liberty is a visual representation of an ideal, not an actual woman.) didn't the Colombian exposition quarter, and the alabama quarter feature real people? (Queen Isabella, and Hellen Keller respectively) |
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