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There is a current US circulating coin that has a portrait of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. What coin is it? No fair doing a web search.
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Sacagawea dollar?
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Yup. It's her son who she's carrying on her back.
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I'd have never of known that.
Never knew that either
I remember the name Jean Baptiste from the books and articles I read when I was just starting out with coins 7 years ago.
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. ''Shinplasters'' are (a) rectangular-shaped coins, (b) bills of little value, (c) injured hobbyists, or (d) medals depicting legs.
B bills of little value
Specifically this was the disparaging name given to near worthless continental currency issued during the American revolution and soon after. This was before adhesive bandages were available and people would used small pieces of wet scrap paper to cover wounds and they were called shin plasters at the time.
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What three years in the 20th century, were no coins produced with mint marks? Cheers, RickO
@Moxie15 ... @PerryHall ... man ... you guys are good.
( B ) ( experts believe the turm originated during the American Revolution when soldiers used worthless bills to bandage leg wounds.
1965, 1966, 1967 no coins produced with mint marks.
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What is the only year since 1793 that the US Mint made no One Cent coins.
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@PerryHall said: Who knows why?
Gee, history is sort of repeating itself!
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Here is a link to my previously posted thread offering a photo essay on the subject of The Pony Express as it related to both Carson City and the unique appearance of the 1861Paquet Reverse $20 gold piece escaping into circulation from the San Francisco Mint.
It is an interesting point of coin trivia that the 1861-S Twenty Dollar Paquet Reverse came to be minted and released into circulation because the fastest means of cross-continent communication in 1861 was limited to the Pony Express.
Had the almost completed continental telegraph line been completed the message to halt the release of the coins would have reached the San Francisco Mint faster than the Pony Express was able to deliver the message. As it is a handful escaped into circulation before the Mint could be alerted.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/914924/remembering-the-pony-express-at-the-carson-city-mint-a-photo-essay/p1
Yup. The mint had a major fire in 1815 which shut down many minting activities not unlike the current pandemic.
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Since 1900 what coin had the lowest mintage that was intended for circulation.
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1913-S quarter with a mintage of 40,000.
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How many USA coin denominations were made with the date 1826?
5?
@PerryHall said: 1913-S quarter with a mintage of 40,000.
Ding Ding Ding !
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Yep you got it. The half cent ... cent ... half dollar... quarter eagle ... half eagle .
What coin was likely created as revenge for the assassination of Lincoln ... according to an owner of a well known consulting firm?
The Lincoln cent?
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Sorry PerryHall
Illinois centennial?
Sorry Smudge
Why is 1921 a key date year for most of the various denominations?
That’s a question that you have to word very carefully to avoid getting “ackshuallyed” (a joke/meme about know-it-alls on the Internet correcting people just to prove they know stuff). Unless there is some new piece of information I’ve missed, the only calendar year with no large cents struck is 1823, and the only date that does not appear on a large cent is 1815. There were cents struck in 1815, but they were not dated 1815. Similarly, there are cents dated 1823, but they were made in a different year.
The 1816 fire is the reason that no silver or gold coins were made with the date 1816, since the equipment the mint used to make silver and gold planchets was damaged by the fire.
I believe that the mint still purchased large cent planchets from a firm in Great Britain at the time, but the War of 1812 had curtailed the delivery of large cent planchets. By 1815, the mint had exhausted their stockpile of planchets and had to wait for new ones to come in.
Here’s a trivia question...
What is the only US coin that does not contain copper? Hint: you probably own one.
@NSP asked; What is the only US coin that does not contain copper?
1943 zinc coated steel cent. (Gold, Nickel, and Silver all contain some copper)
Also I was going for "1815" as the answer to my poorly worded trivia question. You are correct in that the question should have been more like "Since 1793 what is the only year that there are no dated cents?"
You are correct that there were cents minted late in 1815, when the US finally got more copper planchets, and they were delivered early in 1816 and they were probably all dated 1814. No 1815 dies were made as the US had no copper planchets in late 1814 up until late 1815 so there was no need for 1815 dies. No more cents were minted until late in 1816 and were of the newer design of which the newer dies were probably not ready in late 1815, hence they probably used dies left over from 1814. This also accounts for why 1814 cents are more available than 1816 as part of the 1816 mintage numbers were actually dated 1814.
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Silver Eagle?
In what year did the US mint first strike a billion coins?
The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first circulating (noncommemorative) American coin to depict a real person.
There were TWO silver quarter commemoratives. Can you name them both?
There is a US coin that was minted in Philadelphia but issued with an apparent "D" mintmark on the obverse. The "D" does not stand for either Denver or Dahlonega. Know what it is?
Isabella and Bicentennial
Thank you for the confirmation, and you are correct, the 1943 steel cent is the only US coin without copper! I believe that even the platinum bullion coins include trace amounts of copper.
The 1943 zinc plated steel cent. Also, the ASE, Gold Buffalo, Platinum Eagle, and the Palladium Eagle.
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In what year did the US mint first strike a billion coins?
!942 Silver war nickels
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Your answer is correct. My question was wrong:
There were THREE silver quarter commemoratives. Can you name the third?
3 cent nickel?
1932 quarter for the 200th anniversary of Washington's birth. Two years later in 1934 it was decided to keep the design for regular issue quarters.
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Sorry Smudge
Yep!
Wayte Raymond published a page to go with the commemorative half dollar set - it included a space for the 1932 Washington quarter.
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It was 1940 when the US mint's yearly output first exceeded a billion coins.