I missed a coin trivia question. :(

WACoinGuy

My son loves mozerella sticks -- the brand that we buy comes with trivia questions on each stick. Tonight he had one with this question, "Which coin has 118 ridges around the edge?" I got it wrong. Anyone think they know the answer (no fair checking)?

kieferscoins

Coins have reeds and not ridges

Tell him you got it right since they got the question wrong

Cameron Kiefer

xbob

I'll guess, a Washington Quarter?

xbob

Now that my guess is out there - I checked. It's NOT a Washington Quarter.

I missed it too.

JrGMan2004

No clue...

pharmer

It's a trick question, none.

Pretty tough questions they got for the cheese fans.

lordmarcovan

What Sampleslob said.

Potato chips have ridges. Coins have reeds.

WACoinGuy

A quarter was my guess too. Don't know if it was a trick question or not -- I didn't actually verify the answer. I'm not even sure if I have the patience to check it.

poorguy

That should be a roosie dime.

WACoinGuy

That was the answer given -- the dime. Now, the question I have is whether this is only true of the Roosevelt dime? Did older dimes have a different number of reeds?

lordmarcovan

Who in the hell has the time, patience, and eyesight to count stinkin' reeds... especially on a dime ?

That's what I've always wondered, when I see some of these varieties listed in books like Breen, that depend on reed count.

Smitty79

"Other chips are flat, but Ruffles have ridges."

Conder101

US dime. At least the current ones do.

JrGMan2004

<< <i>Who in the hell has the time, patience, and eyesight to count stinkin' reeds... especially on a dime ?

That's what I've always wondered, when I see some of these varieties listed in books like Breen, that depend on reed count. >>

Russ Logan And that was on Half-Dimes Russ Logan identified all of the collar dies used to strike Capped Bust Half-Dimes... reed count and type, and also average range of diameter of a coin struck in the collar... for example, one collar is much larger than all the others, so all coins struck with that collar will not fit into comercial plastic holders for Half-Dimes

Conder101

<< <i>Now, the question I have is whether this is only true of the Roosevelt dime? Did older dimes have a different number of reeds? >>


Oldr one can have different numbers. In the seated series the different mints often made their own collars and the reed counts could and often did differ between the different mints and the differed during different time periods. For example one way to authenticate the very rare 1871-74 CC dimes is by the reed count. Carson City collars only had 89 reeds which was by far the smallest reed count of all the seated dime series. No other mint had a count below 108. Reed count can also be used to seperate the rare Philadelphia dimes of 1863 - 68 from the weak mintmark examples that wre comming out of the San Francisco mint at the time. (The S marked coins often have mintmarks that are so weak the disappear after just a little wear. The half dimes of this period had the same problem.)

In fact I just recently used the reed count method to prove that an 1874-CC dime that Bluemoon coins was selling was NOT a CC dime. His picture clearly showed the edge of the coin. I counted the reed from about 12:00 to 3:00 multiplied by four and came up with a reed count of 122. Even if I was slightly off on my count it still would not have gotten close to 89.

WACoinGuy

That's really interesting Conder. I'm going to have to look at some of my mintmarked seated dimes and count the reeds just to see it!