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Bedrock of the Community
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didn't the Colombian exposition quarter, and the alabama quarter feature real people? (Queen Isabella, and Hellen Keller respectively) That is correct. From the US MINT website Quote: Women on the Nation's Coins With regard to the total number of real women ever portrayed on U.S. coins, our records show the following: Circulating Coins: Helen Keller on the reverse of the Alabama quarter: 2003 Sacagawea on the dollar coin: 1999-Present Susan B. Anthony on the dollar coin: 1979-1981 Commemorative Coins: Queen Isabella of Spain on the Columbian Exposition Quarter Dollar: 1893 Eunice Kennedy Shriver Silver Dollar: 1995 Virginia Dare, with her mother Eleonor Dare, on the Roanoke Island, North Carolina Half Dollar: 1937 |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Okay, January, but what is the symbol?
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Bedrock of the Community
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On the reverse, the bundle of sticks with the hatchet
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's a bundle of sticks? I thought it was a column. Clearly I need to look closer.
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Bedrock of the Community
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It does look exactly like one. The axe blade on the top left is really the only thing that lets you know its sticks instead of a column
It actually goes back to the Roman empire days when civil servants would carry them in front of magistrates and is supposed to symbolize life and death. Mussolini used a lot of Roman symbols
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United Kingdom
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My interesting fact:
In the UK, the only circulating coinage is 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins. However, other legal tender coins are available, but tend to be filtered out of circulation as soon as they are used, these include:
3p, 4p, 25p and £5 coins. There are other coins made of gold worth other sums, for example, the Sovereign can be used and has a face value of £1. There is a £50 coin, the Britannia. All of these can be used, but due to the metal content, are immediately withdrawn, either by the person who took them at the till or the mint retrieves them. This is why no-one gets 25p coins in change - the Crown contains more than 25p worth of Cupro-Nickel and the Quarter Sovereign contains more than 25p worth of Gold.
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Bedrock of the Community
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3p, 4p, 25p and £5 coins. Are these minted every year or just something that happened over time like the old silver coins in the US? |
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Australia
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the fasces was also seen on French coins, in the years after the Revolution. in the WW2 Vichy-era, the Etat Francais coins had an axe, and another feature. regarding 3p & 4p coins of the UK: this would be the Maundy Money: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maundy_moneyand here's my factoid: the first English coin to bear its denomination was the 1799 farthing. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The LAST US coin to have it's denomination put on the coin was the Eagle in 1839. (I don't count the gold dollar or double eagle that got theirs in 1849 because they didn't exist before that date.) The next to last was the Half Dime in 1829. |
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Basebal: Each year, the monarch does a Maundy ceremony and a set of coins, 1p, 2p, 3p and 4p coins are produced in silver. These silver coins, being minted at the time and for ceremonial purposes, are legal tender. Yeah, you can get silver 1 pennies, but they are as rare as the 4ps. Due to tradition also, the maundy 3p is identical in design to the pre 1927 pre decimal silver 3p, which meant the mint was forced to keep this as legal tender. Not that you would use it!
As for the 25p coin, they were produced as commemeratives, for example, a medallion of churchill. Many people do not know they are legal tender as it is not on the coin (it says no where that it can be spent and 25p isn't on it), but they are, as they match the old pre decimal crown and are valued as such. Due to Cupronickel now costing more than 25p for such a coin, the same size and weight is now used for £5 coins and as such 25p coins are no longer minted, but remain legal tender.
£5 coins are still minted and supposedly can be traded for regular £5 notes, but good luck trying that, as you have to be the head of a post office to order them at face value from the mint.
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08/19/2012 7:13 pm
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