1776 date only thread: HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

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• Nysoto Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:43AM

  Virginia currency 1776 engraved by Robert Scot, who was Chief Engraver of the US MInt 1793-1823:

  

  Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:44AM

  

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:48AM

  @Nysoto said:
  Virginia currency 1776 engraved by Robert Scot, who was Chief Engraver of the US MInt 1793-1823:

  THAT is an awesome piece of history!

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• USA240 Posts: 79 ✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:52AM

  

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• dpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:53AM

  Oh, yeah. Like a bunch of us have a coin with 1776 on it! Thoroughly cool!

  And let me cheer on your implied sentiment, Weiss: this is a country marvelous and exceptional for our establishment of rule by law and Constitutional governance. May our institutions and our faith in them see us through these troubled times.

  Happy 4th of July!

  
  Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
  
  
  
  

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• USA240 Posts: 79 ✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:54AM

  

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• SkyMan Posts: 9,515 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 10:55AM

  
  

  Toned Franklins
  
  U.S. Type Set

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• Nysoto Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 11:26AM

  Another 1776 Virginia note engraved by Robert Scot. This was authorized by the landmark Fifth Virginia Convention. On May 15, Virginia leaders declared independence from Britain, and the radical Virginia Seal was designed by George Wythe, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee and engraved on Virginia paper money by Robert Scot:

  

  Robert Scot: Engraving Liberty - biography of US Mint's first chief engraver

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• Zoins Posts: 34,401 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 11:29AM

  

  Private Mint News | 2010 Lincoln Reverse Finalists

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• dpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 11:49AM

  

  
  Here's a warning parable for coin collectors...
  
  
  
  

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 12:02PM

  @SkyMan said:
  
  

  This I like. Very tasyeful

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 12:04PM

  Well... @Skyman beat me to it.... that is my '76 coin as well (not that exact one)...Happy Fourth of July everyone. Cheers, RickO

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• tokenpro Posts: 896 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 12:08PM

  Captain Cook did not find the Sandwich Islands until two years later.

  
  

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• USA240 Posts: 79 ✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 12:17PM

  
  
  
  

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• Justacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 12:28PM

  One of my favorites. It will be tough to separate this from my grubby hands. OG Libertas

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  Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......

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• boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 1:17PM

  Fugio Currency set

  
  
  
  

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• Yorkshireman Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 1:21PM

  How about these:
  
  

  Yorkshireman,Obsessed collector of round, metallic pieces of history.Hunting for Latin American colonial portraits plus cool US & British coins.

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• cardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 1:29PM

  For the Founders of our Nation, and the celebration of the first 100 Years!

  
  
  

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• skier07 Posts: 4,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 1:33PM edited July 4, 2020 1:38PM

  
  
  

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• BillJones Posts: 34,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 2:15PM

  
  

  

  Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?

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• cardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 2:39PM

  

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 2:45PM

  Stunning, @cardinal .

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
  --Severian the Lame
  

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• morgandollar1878 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 2:49PM

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• boiler78 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 2:57PM

  

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• cardinal Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 3:14PM

  @Weiss said:
  Stunning, @cardinal .

  The centennial medals still remain in their original frame, unopened. I guess that means there are mint state?😇

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• TommyType Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 4:15PM

  
  

  Easily distracted Type Collector

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• SaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 5:29PM

  

  Lots of colonial currency printed in 1776, but only in New York was it printed by a Tory Loyalist who was against independence - Hugh Gaine printed this and even NYC notes into the 1790's despite his loyalty to the British crown. Guess business and making money trumped politics.

  Tir nam beann, nan gleann, s'nan gaisgeach ~ Saorstat Albanaich a nis!

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• SiriusBlack Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 5:51PM

  Some amazing stuff in this thread. Great idea!

  Collector of randomness. Photographer at PCGS. Lover of Harry Potter.

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• JRocco Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 6:42PM

  
  

  Some coins are just plain "Interesting"

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• messydesk Posts: 20,315 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 6:45PM

  Some cool stuff in this thread. Thanks for posting, everyone.

  John
  Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution

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• carabonnair Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 7:01PM

  

  Gawain
  
  Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association

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• logger7 Posts: 9,065 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 7:11PM

  

  Also have had many of these 1776 notes that are neat: https://i.imgur.com/RUJeKKM.jpg?1

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,758 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 7:20PM

  

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,758 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 7:23PM

  

  CoinsAreFun Pictorials Album
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• bearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 7:33PM edited July 4, 2020 7:35PM

  I almost didn't open this thread, now I'm glad I did! Lots of papers and coins in here. 🙂 I don't have any thing with those dates on them.

  Ken

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• 1630Boston Posts: 14,111 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 4, 2020 9:58PM

  

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• JesseKraft Posts: 414 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 5, 2020 8:01AM

  1776 Massachusetts half penny. Supposedly by Paul Revere. Struck over a counterfeit 1747 British halfpenny. 7.614g, 27mm.
  American Numismatic Society, 1917.136.2
  

  Jesse C. Kraft, Ph.D.
  Resolute Americana Curator of American Numismatics
  American Numismatic Society
  New York City

  

  Member of the American Numismatic Association (ANA), British Numismatic Society (BNS), New York Numismatic Club (NYNC), Early American Copper (EAC), the Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4), U.S. Mexican Numismatic Association (USMNA), Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC), Token and Medal Society (TAMS), and life member of the Atlantic County Numismatic Society (ACNS).
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