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Valued Member
United States
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What US coins have had the longest production runs? -PP |
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Are you taking into account metal content and different reverse designs?
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Valued Member
 United States
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Metal content: no. I am talking about the same obverse and reverse designs excluding slight changes like the repositioning of mintmarks and such. -PP
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Poland
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the inevitable question is.. does any coin in the world surpass that?
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United States
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Gotta love the Swiss
a good majority of their coins haven't changed since the late 1870's
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's not your math GO, but has anyone else noticed the flaw in our mathamatical system ? 49 years for wheats and 49 for memorial. Adds up to 98, yet there 99 years of Lincoln cents.
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United States
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Actually my math was flawed. I subtracted 1909 from 2008 and it equals 99. Technically if you include all the years it's 100. You also have to add 1 year to the equation of each one
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United States
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@#&%, life was so simple when I was a kid. 2+2=4 and so on. Now you gotta add a year every so often, no wonder I feel older than I am sometimes.
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Jefferson Nickel - 1938-2003, 2007-2008 - 68 years I disagree, should be 66 years. Since Jefferson's image changed in 2007, I count it as a new design.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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How about the Liberty Half Eagle? Main change, addition of motto. Minted from 1839 through 1908 inclusive. Is my math right at 70 years?  Mike  |
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Australia
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The Swiss "silver" coins changed design slightly; a 22nd star was added when Switzerland gained an extra canton in 1979.
The oldest unchanged designs are the 5, 10 and 20 rappen, commencing in 1879, 1885 and 1881 respectively, and still being issued today. Switzerland is of course a much smaller economy than the US, so not every denomination was struck in every year, but they're frequent enough to still consider them a continuous series.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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How about the Maria Theresa Thaler? Not only has it been minted, essentially unchanged, since the 18th Century; for 220 years it's even been the same date. |
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Australia
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If I am not wrong, I think the Dutch ducat has been running over 400 years and is still struck today with similar elements. Technology helped changed over how the coin appearance looks like but I think the gold content still remains the same.
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United States
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Jefferson Nickel - 1938-2003, 2007-2008 - 68 years Shouldn't that be 2006-2008, and therefore 69 years? |
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Shouldn't that be 2006-2008, and therefore 69 years? D'Oh!  Okay, what I said above then should read "I disagree, should be 66 years. Since Jefferson's image changed in 2006, I count it as a new design"So to summarize... 1938 - 2003 -- 66 years -- one design for each obverse and reverse. 2004 - 2005 -- two years -- two obverse designs, four reverse designs. 2006 - date -- original reverse resumed, but new obverse. |
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Posted 07/13/2008 6:01 pm
