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Oriole... I love the quote "accumulates unused in millions of jars." If there are several million jars across the US, each 80-90% full of Lincoln cents, that's a lotta cents. Suppose it depends on what size jars we're considering.
Let's try this -- 20 million jars, with an average of 2000 cents in each. That comes to 40 billion coins. Search that. Cool.
Edited by ijn1944
10/27/2020 3:43 pm
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United States
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Ok, but by today's standards, a half-cent is weird.
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Canada
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@ijn1944, that is a plausible estimate, and it is scary to realize that the estimate is only 4-10 years of actual mintage!
I personally have about 10,000, and I live in Canada! Mind you these are all copper wheat and memorial cents.
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10/27/2020 5:16 pm
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Australia
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I think the "weirdest" American coin is the Columbian Expo Quarter, featuring Queen Isabella of Spain. I believe it's still the only US coin to depict a monarch. (the Hawaii coins don't count, as Hawaii was an independent country back then). 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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United Kingdom
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I think the Bridgeport, Connecticut half-dollar is pretty weird, with that strange Art-Deco eagle on one side and none other than P.T.Barnum on the other! Mind you, I'd love to have one in my collection!
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 United States
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Among the regular circulating issues it's 20 cents, hands down. No other serious contenders. Quote:
Half a cent would still be worth a lot back then. Yep. It bought more than a cent, nickel or dime does today. Good reason it lasted for 60 years, and good reason to abandon the one cent coin today. Edited by tdziemia
10/27/2020 8:35 pm
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United States
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Oriole... I love the quote "accumulates unused in millions of jars." If there are several million jars across the US, each 80-90% full of Lincoln cents, that's a lotta cents. Suppose it depends on what size jars we're considering.
Let's try this -- 20 million jars, with an average of 2000 cents in each. That comes to 40 billion coins. Search that. Cool. So... you're saying the US has more cents than sense? |
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United States
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 Um....Yikes! It's probably worth a zillion dollars but WOW. |
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Russian Federation
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I think the Bridgeport, Connecticut half-dollar is pretty weird, with that strange Art-Deco eagle on one side and none other than P.T.Barnum on the other! Mind you, I'd love to have one in my collection!  That weird eagle definitely caught my eye, but I didn't realize it was Barnum on the other side! |
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Canada
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Um....Yikes! It's probably worth a zillion dollars but WOW. Possibly the ugliest coin design. |
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United States
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Um....Yikes! It's probably worth a zillion dollars but WOW. That coin is called "Crazed Liberty, Escaped from Asylum".  |
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United States
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"a half-cent? Very weird"
Not when you remember that British Coinage, widely circulating in the Colonies at the time, had a half penny and a farthing.
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Russian Federation
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I kind of like the initial rigidly-decimal system that US coinage started out with. 10 mills = 1 cent, 10 cents = 1 dime, 10 dimes = 1 dollar ("or unit"), 10 dollars = 1 eagle. (10 eagles = 1 union, but that one never made it outside of patterns. There was never an official term for 1/10 of a mill, on the account of it being an irrelevantly low denomination; my favorite unofficial term is "milray".) |
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That coin is called "Crazed Liberty, Escaped from Asylum" I'm calling it the Zombie Coin. |
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