I'm Back! Time for a giveaway!
AnkurJ
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BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!
So lets have a giveaway in honor of my unbanning. Winner will be randomly selected on Sunday night.
BUT! You have to answer this question correctly in order to be eligible.
In what month were the 1793 Liberty Cap cents minted? And WHY was mintage halted shortly therafter? (the second answer is actually not numismatic related, but history related)
The winner will get this lovely dime! It is raw but I grade it G6.
Lets get it on!
Ankur
All coins kept in bank vaults.
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
PCGS Registries
Box of 20
SeaEagleCoins: 11/14/54-4/5/12. Miss you Larry!
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Latin American Collection
not a particularly easy answer to find.
I see Sept 1793 and Yellow Fever outbreak will be the consensus.
Thanks for the opportunity!
edited, as it'll be a random drawing of correct guesses.
Yellow fever
Latin American Collection
Welcome back,,
you gonna behave this time???
September 1973
Fever epidemic
Lance.
I repeat:September 1793 and yellow fever.
<< <i>I repeat:September 1793 and yellow fever. >>
Me too!
Thank you for the contest!
Numismatist @WitterCoin
Hoard the keys.
Stopped due to Yellow Fever
Thx
Yellow fever......
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DURING JOSEPH WRIGHT’S LAST MONTH of life, before he succumbed in one of Philadelphia’s then annual yellow fever epidemics, he designed a new style of cent, deriving at some distance from Dupre’s LIBERTAS AMERICANA medal though with head facing right. This head is more delicate in detail than any earlier or later ones; the cap shows behind her, the pole along bust line. For reverse Wright drew a simple two-branch olive wreath, the fraction below. This famous Liberty Cap design was to be copied successively by Robert Scot, J.S. Gardner and others, this style of wreath persisting on cents through 1807 and later recopied on the UNITY STATES cents dated 1783 but struck between 1810 and 1820.
Three obverse dies and two reverses were completed, between late July and early September 1793, the heads from a single hub (containing head and cap but no pole), the pole, letters, numerals and border beads on both sides added by hand, the wreath being constructed from individual leaf and berry punches. Planchets are broader and thinner than any heretofore, so that the coins ring better than Chains or Wreaths.
On September 18, 1793 came a single delivery: 11,056 pieces, The true sequence of varieties is controversial, but at least we can say that the famous Bisecting Break, S-14 (C.1.3L) came first, the S-15 (C.14K) last, the others in between with several back-and-forth intermulings. Both reverses gave way in center, Reverse K almost immediately, obliterating ONE CENT. This fact makes many of these look more worn than they actually are. Only a little over 2% survive in all, possibly eight in AU or better, none in full Uncirculated, the vast majority badly worn. These are the most prized of all large cents. (S-numbers indicate large cent varieties, 1793-1814, described by William H. Sheldon in Penny Whimsy, N.Y., Harper & Bros., 1958 and later reprint.)
San Diego, CA
Polka Dot Fever.
I'm feeling a bit puny myself ...
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Yellow fever
thx for the chance!
Welcome back!
Outbreak of that dreaded mosquito borne illness, yellow fever.
<< <i>What everyone else said: Sept 1793. Yellow Fever. >>
This. If only they had more cowbell.
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Sept 1793
Yellow Fever
Yellow fever
Steve
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Sept 1793
Yellow fever
Thanks for the giveaway!
September 1793, Yellow fever
Thanks for the chance!
September 1793 Yellow Fever
Killer yellow fever epidemic.
<< <i>I'm in!
September 1793 Yellow Fever >>
I will go along with the common answer,and Welcome Back!!!!
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