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Pillar of the Community
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It was probably what the curator had in his pocket...
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:I believe that there is only One 1974 Aluminum Lincoln Cent that is legal to own as the Congressman who dropped the coin, gave it to one of the capitol workers at the time instead of the Congressman returning it to the Mint as required. In the opinion of the government that one is not legal to own either. It did not belong to the Congressman to give away so title remains with the government. If it were to ever come up for auction you would probably find the Secret Service approaching the auction house to confiscate it. |
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Do they still have the $100 million (my estimate) box of coins on display? It contains some of the most valuable US coins in existence, several of which are literally priceless like the 1907 UHRDE pattern (the 27mm one like the 2009 replica).  I have close-ups of most of the coins in the case if anyone is interested. |
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No, the majority of the currency collection is not on display due to renovations.
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Pillar of the Community
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The 1907 UHRDE, 27mm diameter ~4mm thick with raised edge lettering.  1804 Dollar (class 2), only known specimen  Edited by clairhardesty
10/04/2012 1:20 pm
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I made contact with the curator of the numismatic department and they researched it and concurred it was an error and reported that it would be fixed. Well done!  |
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United States
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Didn't know they had that nice of a display there. Will be a good place to visit over the winter months after the crowds clear out. Good work on the correction. Wonder how much they researched that mistake.
edgman
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United States
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I remember, years ago, walking through the coin exhibit. On the wall were displayed
a bunch of gold coins which no doubt drew the attention of the casual visitor.
But on the other side of the room a coin was sitting quietly in a display case, with the description:
"1913 Liberty Head Nickel."
I was more impressed by this that anything else that I saw.
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Valued Member
United States
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That is great! Too bad they didn't credit you in the new display.
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Pillar of the Community
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The 1913 Liberty nickel was in the Legendary Coins case when I was there.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As a young boy we visited the Smithsonian and the 1849 $20 gold piece really struck me as unique. That was close to 40 years ago and I still remember seeing it.
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United States
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That 1804 dollar is beautiful! Thanks for posting those pictures as it'll be quite some time before I go to DC.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Glad to hear you told them about their mistake. Kind of funny when they have a 1984 cent there and mention it was 1986 in the description.  I took a bunch of photos of the displays, before they took it down. What else did they have on display? Do they still have wall full of gold coins on display? |
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I think that any respectable museum would own up to the mistake after due diligence.
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As a young boy we visited the Smithsonian and the 1849 $20 gold piece really struck me as unique. That was close to 40 years ago and I still remember seeing it. Do you remember if it had that heavy obv scratch at that time? Quote:
Do they still have wall full of gold coins on display? That was back before they ripped out the numismatic collection and put it in storage so they could remodel the are allowing you to watch the restoration of the Star Spangled Banner from up above. Since then they have not had any really large numismatic displays. Much of the wall of gold was from the Eli Lily collection that wa donated to the Smithsonian in I believe 67 or 68. |
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