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All are beautiful examples.
One can only imagine what might have been purchased with these while in circulation!
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I see what you did there! Nice coins, I learned something new today  You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Just read your post and enjoyed your history lesson on the 1816 coinage. I had no idea the cent was the only coin minted so very much appreciate the education.
Always a chance to learn something new when participating in this hobby and forum!
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thanks all!
im glad you guys enjoyed the coins and the post. I enjoy sharing them.
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My only addition to this is a post I made back on 12/16/2015.   "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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thats awesome! I like the shadow box set up. well made, funny and attractive.
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That's absolutely awesome job of showcasing those 1816's.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Why?
Why was the cent the only coin minted? What's the backstory?
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thats a great question. and I know the answer!
on January 11 of 1816 the building housing the mints rolling presses burned to the ground. this meant that precious metals could not be processed onto blanks for coining. copper blanks were being imported from England so the lack of rolling equipment didnt have any bearing on their ability to produce cents.
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thats a great question. and I know the answer! Thank you for sharing! |
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Just saw this thread referenced on another and checked it out. Great job laying this out clearly. Now I have to pull my one and only 1816 and attempt to attribute. Thanks for your efforts.
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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CarrsCoins let me know with this thread that 1816 was a special year.
This made me think of a departed CCF member, a few years back, who collected by year set. I think he lived in Minneapolis. He tried to complete date/mm coin sets by year. He taught me that the most difficult year for a collector to find in U.S. coinage was 1815. He was right because, although 1816 saw the issuance of just one coin, 2,820,982 were minted, making the 1816 cent available. There were 3 coins issued in 1815, the quarter with a mintage of 89,235, half dollar, the 1815/2 overdate with a mintage of 47,150, and the quarter eagle that had a mintage of 635 but only 11 examples are known. All 1815 dated U.S. coins are scarce to rare.
He also let me know that 1815 was the only year when the U.S. Mint did not produce a 1 cent denominated coin since inception in 1793.
I miss all of my departed CCF friends.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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@ bump111 - when you get it figured out post it here or over in the varieties forum and ill be happy to confirm your attribution for you.
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