What is your favorite, "Did You Know?" coin trivia?
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Mine is the fact that toward the 1960s casinos in Las Vegas began to purposely remove the dates on real silver dollars so as to prevent collectors buying them at face value from the coin cages and simply keeping them. As silver dollars were only worth about $1.10 each (at best) for common date coins up to 1964 this practice kept the cartwheels in Las Vegas and in the machines.
What is your "Did You Know?" coin trivia?
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Did you know there was a U.S. Mint in Oregon that never produced a coin?
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"Did you know?" That if President Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, most probably Benjamin Franklin still would be on today's half dollar.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.In January 1924, Samuel Brown sold all five 1913 Liberty Head nickels. The intact lot passed through the hands of several other coin dealers before finally being purchased by Colonel E. H. R. Green (son of the famous Gilded Age investor and miser Hetty Green), who kept them in his collection until his death in 1936. His estate was then auctioned off, and the five 1913 Liberty Head nickels were purchased by two dealers, Eric P. Newman and B. G. Johnson, who broke up the set for the first time.
The smallest US coin is the type 1 gold dollar.
The lightest US coin is the silver three cent coin.
The largest US coin is the 5 oz silver ATB. It's also the heaviest US coin.
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The only 2 coins minted after a president's death is the roosevelt dime and Kennedy half dollar
The US mint used the same 1943 Steel cent blanks to strike 1944 Belgium 2 franc coins.
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The portrait on the buffalo nickel is a composite of several people.
That St. Gauden’s son, Homer, was involved in lowering the relief of the $20 coin
That John Sinnock likely took the credit for Selma Burke’s design of Roosevelt for the dime, aka stoke it.
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Actually, all US coins showing a US President were struck after that President's death with the exception of one coin. Can you name it?
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@PerryHall great question/fact. I had to look it up, so I won’t answer...I didn’t have a clue.
Washington pattern cent?
At that speed, it would only require 60 seconds to make 30,000 coins. Very interesting.....got a minute?
Do you know who the first living (real) living person to be struck on a US coin? Trick question...
Thomas Kilby on the Alabama Commem? Or is it something more tricky?
McKinnally? ( i didnt look it up either on any computer )
Christopher Columbus on the Columbian Exposition commemorative half dollar in 1892.
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That can be it too. It depends if the question was asking about still living at the time or formerly living.
I'll give you guys a hint. Who is shown on the 1926 Sesquicentennial Commemorative half dollar?
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The only person to appear on coinage during the reign of the Nazis in Germany was Paul Von Hindenburg, never Hitler: https://www.coinworld.com/voices/gerald-tebben/heil_hitler.html
I find that interesting personally. When I think of dictators, I think of a person who would put his face on absolutely everything (which Hitler generally did) ESPECIALLY the coins, which he did not.
I’ll give another hint (since I cheated, and there aren’t enough hints in the world for me to have gotten it)...It wasn’t George Washington
One of my favorite stories:
Only 24 proof dimes were minted in 1894 at San Francisco. Mint Superintendent John Daggett, reportedly gave his daughter Hallie Daggett 3 or 4 of these 1894-S dimes. Hallie reportedly spent one of her 1894 S dimes to buy an ice cream cone. The coin apparently circulated for many years. That coin is known today in Good-4 as the “Ice Cream Specimen”.
To my knowledge, the below answer is correct, but with that said, that coin was minted not meant for circulation. The first coin minted for circulation with a real person was the Lincoln penny (1909)...
Christopher Columbus on the Columbian Exposition commemorative half dollar in 1892.
George Bush?
Did you know that there were peace dollars struck in 1964, all of them were melted. A few are rumored to exist (and probably do) but since their illegal to own, no one goes public with them.
This mint was never fully erected, but proposed and partially-built.
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Your question was a bit vague. Columbus is the answer for the first real person to be featured on a coin while Kilby is the first still living person to be featured.
"In 1921, Kilby earned the distinction of being the first living person featured on a coin issued by the U.S. Mint. The commemorative coin was issued in honor of Alabama's 1919 centennial of admission to the Union."
http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1536
Sorry, if I did not write my question the best. You have to forgive me as I am from the Southside of Chicago and went to a Public school... Thanks Joe
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Shredded money is recycled and used in some building materials. The shingles on my roof could be filled with currency. No wonder it costs soo much to re-shingle a house. Lol
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Peter the Mint Bird:
Peter the Bald Eagle was famous in life and immortalized after death. While still alive he was the unofficial mascot of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, having simply flown into the building one day and deciding to hang around.
This went on for six years in the 1830s. Peter then unwisely decided to perch on the flywheel of a coining press; it caught his wing, crippled him, and he died. The mint had Peter stuffed -- he was a good-looking bird -- and for years its engravers used his body as a convenient model whenever they had to put a bald eagle on a new U.S. coin.
Millions of Americans have carried Peter in their pockets, and he's still an attraction nearly 200 years after his awkward death.
Technically, every President coin is minted after the President’s death, just not immediately after
I feel a song coming on.........."Peter In Their Pockets."..........and he's still an attraction nearly 200 years after his awkward death....etc., etc. Perhaps set to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. i.e., John Brown's Body.
Did you know the assayer of the Charlotte Mint was the father of a Union General who was one of the 3 commissioners of the Confederate surrender?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1011339/a-civil-war-generals-gold-medal-history-in-your-hands
President Calvin Coolidge was quite alive when he appeared on the 1926 Sesquicentennial Commemorative half dollar.
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Good point. I was thinking of circulating coins and I should have mentioned that.
And I don’t really consider commemoratives to be circulating coins because they were intended to be sold above face value.
Did you know there are (at least) two US Mint coin designers on the CU forums?
I knew that Dan Carr did a couple of state quarter designs. Who is the other one?
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Type I three-cent silver pieces are .750 silver. Type II and III are .90 silver.
they will sure needing more soon... if the election goes south.
Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson? McKinley, Grant? (KIdding around, I know what you meant,)
Interesting that coinweek now has an article on my last point. On their home page.
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Did You Know how many different people are on US coins, circulating and otherwise?
With so many designs, I can't tell anymore!
Richard Masters who started with the Nebraska state quarter and has been on a roll since.
Coin Design Credits
The Pyramids predated the invention of coinage by 2000+ years.
What about the Ike Dollar?
FDR on a 1936 Philippines commemorative. A US territory at the time, and the Manila Mint is recognized as a US branch Mint.