Be Careful When Measuring Your Gold

Coinosaurus

This is on page 6 of the Report to the House of Representatives titled "American Metric Coinage" (1882).

Much of the document was written by W. Wheeler Hubbell during his attempts to get Congress to approve his patented snake-oil called "goloid."

messydesk

76.5 what???

BlindedByEgo

Man oh man, to think that we were just one hair away from Goloid coins.

keyman64

<< <i>76.5 what??? >>



Besides that...very interesting!

Placid

Guess they didnt have spell checkers back then.

shylock

Wow, that's what I use to call letters from my ex wife.

MrHalfDime

Not gonna touch that one. Not going anywhere near it. Not gonna do it.

CaptHenway

CaptHenway

Type O is not just a blood type!

bigjpst

<< <i>Wow, that's what I use to call letters from my ex wife. >>


In the running for post of the decade.

savoyspecial

shylock's post is great!

Swampboy

<< <i>shylock's post is great! >>

Boosibri

<< <i>76.5 what??? >>



This is still a unit of measure in construction.

Steve27

I always liked the pattern; even if she is 76.5 c*ntigrams pure gold.

TwoSides2aCoin

This is not what one would expect to find at the crack of dawn on this forum, unless one were given to serious research & study. Good find.

AMRC

Kind of cool.

ricko

Great.... and Shylock's comment is soooooo fitting.... Cheers, RickO

rhedden

Someone needs to post a pic of one of those large cents with the tooled/altered reverse. Actually, better not.

renomedphys

1 R.C.H. away from poof. And yes, the red ones are the thinnest.