What is so unusual?
jedm
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This is an unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so uncommon about it? It looks so ordinary that you may think nothing is odd about it until you match it with most paragraphs this long. If you put your mind to it you will find out, but nobody may assist you; do it without any coaching. Go to work and try your skill at figuring it out. Par on it is about half an hour. Good luck -- and don't blow your cool!
What follows is a coin with 3 things wrong to assist you as you think on it... 
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Three error reverse. IINITED. No left wreath stem. 1/000.
hmmmmm uh huh... and paragraph?
That's a pretty long paragraph to not have any letter e in it.
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@Baley Yes especially when there are 5 of them visible just on the reverse of the cent. You got that really fast!
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Having been involved with cryptography for many years, that was an obvious oddity. E is the most commonly used letter in the English language and a key point in decoding low level encryptions. The sequence of commonality in our language of the first eight letters, is E, T, R, I, N, O, A, C. Cheers, RickO
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American author Ernest Vincent Wright published the 50,000 word novel Gadsby in 1939-- the longest book that doesn't have the letter e in it at all.
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
Paragraphs are 'sposed to be indented. Learned that along with cursive writing.
Cursive writing...hah! Showing your age...we don't need that anymore.
Does that mean he published it anonymously or with a pseudonym?
Ed. S.
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If you look at the U in United States, it has what appears to be horns due to a die crack. It looks more like an H (Hnited States)
@markelman1125 The theory is that two "I" punches were used rather than a "U" in UNITED so it comes off as IINITED, however the "I" in this typeface have no crossbars so you don't see the effect here.