Coinworld Trivia

Hey Longnine009, The U.S. Assay Commission is correct. The first year the the U.S. Mint had an outside commission check out its is coinage was in 1823. This group eventually became the Assay Commission, made up of private citizens whose principal duties over the years was to compare the weight of the standard pound, made and used by the mint,with the original standard pound sent over from England in 1827. Mike

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Originally posted by longnine009

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Originally posted by nohope587

I can see I will have to make the questions harder....

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Okay, what (according to Thomas Elder) was the name of Lyman Low's last dog--a white male French Poodle?

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Wow, that's a thread stopper! Is there an answer?

...famous numismatists like Lyman Low...Born in Boston in 1844
Low, Lyman Haines â€" (1844-1924) A native of New Rochelle, New York, Low served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Low was both dealer and collector. His coins (with 400 large cents) were sold on May 1-3, 1924....He wrote a standard text on Hard Times Tokens in 1886, and served as co-editor of The American Journal of Numismatics from 1891 to 1907.

Humm,it's hard to imagine what Thomas Elder THOUGHT Lyman named his LAST dog. But being that it's French I'll guess he'd name the poor dog.."Liberty".

You definitely succeeded in making the questions harder! [:p]

You gotta watch the OldDan nohope. He gets tricky when your not looking.

catman

Trivia for the fourth of July

Now the folks down under and across the pond know this answer;

so for all the Americans celebrating the 4th of July, Who is Guy Fawkes
and what does Guy Fawkes day have in common with the fourth of July.

Here's the short story....Catman nailed it!

Guido Fawkes (April 13, 1570â€"January 31, 1606), most commonly called Guy Fawkes and sometimes rendered as Faukes, who also used the pseudonym John Johnson, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who attempted to assassinate King James I and all the members of both branches of the Parliament of England while they were assembled in the House of Lords building for the formal opening of the 1605 session of Parliament. The plot was uncovered and the barrels of gunpowder defused before any damage was done. Fawkes was a convert to Catholicism, which occurred at about the age of 16, if his admission of recusancy at his preliminary interrogation is to be believed.

In the United Kingdom and in New Zealand, the failure of the gunpowder plot is celebrated annually on Guy Fawkes Night.