UPDATE - WINNER!!! - 1000th post contest...A twenty-cent piece as the prize!

astrorat

Any other double-dime tidbits?

Lane

astrorat

Any new info?

Lane

amiller

I'm digging deep but not finding much that I think would be new to you, astrorat.

Will keep looking...

astrorat

<< <i>I'm digging deep but not finding much that I think would be new to you, astrorat.

Will keep looking... >>



Yeah...you never know what you might find! Plus there is always that learning thing that happens along the way!

Lane

AskRaq

RE: COUNTERFEITING

While the denomination was short lived, it contains one the most famous rarities in United States coins, the 1876-CC. Usually appearing only when celebrated collections are sold, this date is truly one of the icons of American numismatics. Mint records show that when the order came down to melt all the twenty-cent pieces for recoinage into other denominations, 12,359 pieces were on hand in Carson City, the bulk of which were the 10,000 1876 coins minted. Obviously, most were destroyed, as probably no more than 18 examples of this date exist today, and the majority of those are uncirculated. Counterfeits, other than the most rudimentary fakes, are rarely encountered, as all genuine 1876-CCs will show doubling on LIBERTY, and this effectively precludes adding a mintmark or muling a reverse to an 1876 Philadelphia piece.

From: a CoinCommunity.com article...

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bowers, Q. David, United States Dimes, Quarters and Half Dollars, Bowers and Merena Galleries, Wolfeboro, NH, 1986.
Breen, Walter, Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins, F.C.I./Doubleday, New York, 1988.
Yeoman, R.S., A Guidebook of United States Coins, 47th Edition, Western Publishing Co., Racine, WI, 1993.
Rauch, Roy, "History of the U.S. Twenty Cent Piece", The Gobrecht Journal, Collective Volume Number One, Liberty Seated Collectors Club, Kettering, OH, 1980.
Courtesy of Numismatic Guaranty Corporation An Historical Reference from the NGC PHOTO PROOF Series

astrorat

Come on, folks...let's get some more double-dime action!

I was just playing with my twenty-cent love tokens this morning and thought we needed more new info!

Lane

bsshog40

Just a little bit of error info, a Philippines 1945S 50 Centavo(s) was Struck on a 20c planchet as per reported by the MintErrorNews

Thanks for the chance and congratulations on your 1000th post.

astrorat

<< <i>Just a little bit of error info, a Philippines 1945S 50 Centavo(s) was Struck on a 20c planchet as per reported by the MintErrorNews

Thanks for the chance and congratulations on your 1000th post. >>



Well...I think that might be not quite correct as the 20c probably refers to a 20 centavo planchet. I would be quite surprised to see a 20 cent US planchet appear at the SF Mint 70 years after the mint struck US 20 cent pieces.

Lane

bsshog40

<< <i>

<< <i>Just a little bit of error info, a Philippines 1945S 50 Centavo(s) was Struck on a 20c planchet as per reported by the MintErrorNews

Thanks for the chance and congratulations on your 1000th post. >>



Well...I think that might be not quite correct as the 20c probably refers to a 20 centavo planchet. I would be quite surprised to see a 20 cent US planchet appear at the SF Mint 70 years after the mint struck US 20 cent pieces.

Lane >>


Well it was listed under this heading!!! A partial registry of known foreign coins struck on US Planchets
I didn't write it, just read it.

astrorat

Okay folks...it's the last weekend before the giveaway!

Lane

astrorat

ttt

Omega

Let me start with my one fact:

The fact is I had no idea that I knew so little about Twenty Cent pieces until this post.
In support of this fact I can offer my wife's sworn statement that I often know little or nothing.

This giveaway is a great idea. (also known as shameless schmoozing to obtain a twenty cent piece and fill a ridiculous looking hole in my type set and prove my wife WRONG all in one fell swoop!)

Thanks for the chance!

astrorat

You get an "A" for effort!

Learning more about the series through posting and the process of self-education was the purpose of the post.

Lane

astrorat

Just a couple of days left!

Lane

mojoman

count me in please,MoJo


RETAIL PRICES FOR CIRCULATION STRIKE TWENTY CENTS
Date 05 08 12 20 40 45 50 53 55 58 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68
1875 55 67 80 100 200 350 475 500 550 575 600 700 800 1250 2250 7500 16900 34500
1875-S 50 55 70 100 160 475
1875-CC 60 65 80 135 225 750
1876 85 110 150 210 325 800
1876-CC 60000 175000 200000

RETAIL PRICES FOR PROOF TWENTY CENTS

Date 05 08 12 20 40 45 50 53 55 58 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68
1875 425 550 1600 2750
1875-S
1876 2000
1877 1500 1600 2800
1878 1300 1400 2500

ecichlid

I'm in thank you!

jmj3esq

The eagle on the reverse looks very similar to the eagle on the reverse of a trade dollar. The eagle's head on the 20 cent piece id turned to his left as compared to other seated coinage where the eagles head is turned to their right.

astrorat

UPDATE

Hi folks...looks like we have a winner of the 1000th post contest! The interesting fact was regarding the placement of E PLURIBUS UNUM on the edge of the coin. And the poster was ... onejinx! So, Brett, PM me your address and I will go through my double dimes and find one for you!

Thanks for playing everyone!

Lane