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Do Any Members of Congress Collect Coins?
itsnotjustme
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I had a chance to visit Congress for my work yesterday. I am wondering, does anyone know of any Senators or Representatives who collect coins?
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<< <i>a clad half-dime that is based on the size and shape of the half-dime or 5-cent coin produced in the 1870s >>
In the 1870s there was a 5-cent coin, the Shield nickel, produced in all 10 years of the 1870s. The half-dime on the other hand was only produced in 4 years of the decade. The wording of this bill would have given the US Mint discretion to produce this coin in either size, that of the Shield nickel or the half-dime.
[Apply british dry humor accent] Both coins of course were round, and thus there would have been no-discretion in the application of roundness. The new half-dime in either the size of a nickel or half-dime, would have been round and called a half-dime. Despite the BBC's best efforts, every time we cut a dime in half, it appeared more like a half moon than a half dime, but retained 50% of the roundness characteristics of a whole dime. Similar results occurred when using a pound, shilling or pence. 5 pound notes had profound and yet to be understood effects. When we had different test subjects cut the notes in half. All began as rectangles, but some results were two squares, others were two rectangles that were long and skinny. There were also matched pairs of triangles, and even cases of four sided polygons. Finally in one case, the note remained in one piece, with a partial cut and a red sticky substance on it.
<< <i>To amend section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, to provide for the return of the half-dime as the new 5-cent circulating coin, and for other purposes. >>
Go visit him and ask about it
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
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<< <i>What dead presidents would they be putting on these beauties!!!!
Maybe none now that Mike Castle, father of the PDs, SHQs, NPQs, has been defeated by a Tea Partier!
I had a chance to visit Congress for my work yesterday. I am wondering, does anyone know of any Senators or Representatives who collect coins?
Surely they do. I think most prefer checks though.
--Franz Kafka
<< <i>"Maybe none now that Mike Castle, father of the PDs, SHQs, NPQs, has been defeated by a Tea Partier! "
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<< <i>"Maybe none now that Mike Castle, father of the PDs, SHQs, NPQs, has been defeated by a Tea Partier! "
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Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire