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This isn't AIG! We don't get recurring bonuses! I think you mean "retention" bonuses! As in the ability to remember how you lost all that money to begin with! |
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The Liberty Head Nickel, when first minted in 1883, did not have the word "cents" inscribed on it. "Enterprising" individuals illegally gold plated the coins and attempted to pass them off as $5 gold pieces, sometimes successfully. The U.S. Mint soon caught on to the scam and added the word "cents" to the nickels shortly thereafter.
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guess: 327
Bonus guess: 634
YN guess: 952
Fact: Canadian nickels before 1982 are basically 100% nickel and 100% nickel is magnetic.
Thanks for the contest!
Jser
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My guess is 454.
Americans could not own gold for over forty years.
In 1933 President Roosevelt under the authority of the Emergency Banking Act issued Executive Order No. 6102 calling in and confiscating privately held gold, but exempted "gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors of rare and unusual coins," but it did not define special value or collector, and certainly not collectibles.
In 1974, with Executive Order No. 11825, President Gerald Ford repealed the Executive Order that Roosevelt used to call in gold in 1933. This was necessary because on the same day Congress restored Americans' right to own gold. Furthermore, in 1977 Congress removed the president's authority to regulate gold transactions during a period of national emergency other than war.
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Tornandfrayed75
guess: 292
fact: A Southern California collector paid $5 million for the Eliasberg Specimen 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, the second highest price ever paid for a coin. The collector took possession of the coin at an undisclosed Southern California location on Wednesday April 25.
This Eliasberg Specimen is the finest known of the five existing examples. Two reside in museums, three are in private collections.
Thanks for the chance, this is my first contest. Yeah!!
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Cool fact: The first Chinese banknotes were printed on a security paper made from mulberry bark. In fact, Japanese banknotes today are still printed on mulberry bark paper, giving them their yellow tone.
Edited by wd1040
03/24/2009 9:48 pm
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Evening guess : 322 My lil girls B-day Bonus guess: 062 Coin Fact: From the US Mint Archives In 1968 the mint decided to sell off 2.9 million in U.S. silver dollars being stored in the treasury vaults. The price was partially based on the now infamous " Red Book"! http://www.usmint.gov/historianscor...ge=42&id=204 |
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Evening...125
Coin Fact:
A $10 commemorative gold piece struck in 1984 honoring the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles was the first US gold coin of any kind made since 1933.
Bonus fact:
Regarding the 1984 $10 gold Olympic coins, the ones struck at West Point were the first coins to be stamped with the "W" mint mark.
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OK, I'll play. Evening guess...199 Fact: the highest mintage ever for any Jefferson nickel is the 1964D, with a mintage of 1,787,297,160. These nickels are still common finds in pocket change despite being 43 years old. There is a nice die polishing error to be found on some of the 1964D nickels, too: some of them will read "E PLURIDUS UNUM" on the reverse, the center of the B having been accidentally polished out. |
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Gotchas SPQR ... I'll update later tonight if more show up.
I am looking for the PLURIDUS nickel for the longest time. I don't have a one.
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Thanks for the contest, Mike.
Evening ... 813
Bonus ... 646
Fact: In 1851, the government decreased the price of postage for 5 cents to 3 cents, and a senator from New York named Daniel Stevens Dickinson decided it would be very useful to have a 3-cent coin with which to buy stamps, so he proposed a bill to mint a 3-cent coin that was 75% silver and 25% copper, and it passed.
Fact #2 to go with the second guess: Thomas Jefferson first proposed having a 20-cent coin, but it wasn't until 1875 that we actually had one.
Sorry. I think I got it now.
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03/27/2009 5:36 pm
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1,000 1856 Flying Eagle cents were struck without official authorization. Therefore, from a legal standpoint, all 1856 Flying Eagle cents may be considered to have been illegally struck and issued. My guesses are 005 and bonus guess 599 |
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Mint_Marq guess 590 Mint_marq's Fact: At the start of WW2 the government took bills from the 1934 and 1935 series and overprinted them with HAWAII. They were shipped to that territory to replace ordinary bills so that they could be declared worthless in the event of a Japanese invasion. The fear was that if the Imperial Army captured a lot of ordinary U.S. currency they could use it to buy weapons as well as making counterfeit copies. Most info borrowed from the WikiAnswers, scans our mine.   |
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Evening: 697 Fact: Since being a member of this forum I have learned a lot about Jefferson nickels. While you are searching through nickels keep your eyes peeled for 1990D coins. You may be lucky enough to find one without FS below Jefferson's neck. FS stands for Felix Schlag who was the designer of the nickel. He won a contest on April 21, 1938 for his design. His prize was $1000 but was used to pay for his wife's funeral. His initials have been on the nickel since 1966. |
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