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Until 1946 the Statue of Liberty was featured on what coin ?
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This question was just asked on TV on CNBC as a teaser trivia question just before a commercial break.
During the break I thought maybe a French coin ? But I couldn't think of one. Then I thought what US coin changed design in 1946 ? They couldn't possibly be dumb enough to think it was the dime ?
Then the commercial break was over and the answer was announced:
"The Dime"
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Coin from French Indo China has the same Liberty although she is seated rather than standing.
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Very misleading question.... and totally incorrect. Must have been a question formulated by someone who has zero coin knowledge. Cheers, RickO
Didn't you know the Statue of Liberty has them wings hidden under that crown?
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I hate bad trivia like that. I guess we should be thankful they did not ask which US coin had a Roman God on it.
My other trivia pet peeve is prooleveho chain that out currency is made out of cloth because it is made from cotton fiber paper. Cloth vs paper has to do with how the material is prepared (woven vs laid), not the type of substance used.
More fake news.
Thinking the Mercury dime had the Roman god Mercury on it would have been forgivable, though wrong. But the Statue of Liberty? Bizarre.
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I believe De Francisci referenced the Statue of Liberty at various times as at least one of influences of the Peace dollar.
It'd be a closer match than the dime, anyway.
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In the old days of quiz programs Charles Van Doren would have known the answer.
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That's odd.......
Everything else on CNBC is absolute fact !
Maybe they got this from a Snapple cap. Years ago there was a thread on here about some coin mis-information on Snapple caps.
The confusion may come from the fact that a lot of websites refer to the depiction of a female "liberty" on coins as "lady liberty," which is also the nickname for the Statue of Liberty. And of course lady liberty got replaced by boring old FDR in 1946, so there you have it. A dime. Just don't anyone tell the half-dollar lol.
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That's hardly a "statue" on the Merc dime.
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Many years ago a Jeopardy answer had to do with the last US coin to depict a Native American. This was prior to the modern Commems and the Sacs. The “correct” question was, What is the Buffalo Nickel. Well......I think the Oregon Trail and Arkansas commems of 1939 would have been a better choice that would have put the fact checkers on edge.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
He would've had a correct answer.