I just got re-hired by the Census! let's see some coins from Census years!
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I spent the last couple years working for the 2020 Decennial (every 10 years) Census, it was my second time working for the Census. I worked for the 2010 Census as well. There was one wonderful gentleman in our office who had worked for the last 5! Probably a few of you have also done Census work...since almost half a million citizens are hired to help with each Decennial Census!
The Census actually operates a few HQ's around the country and does other surveys every year as well. Those surveys provide ongoing data in a ton of helpful ways...like researching data when opening a business in a particular area.
I'll be helping to do some auditing...so don't be surprised in a month and during the next few months if you get a wonderfully friendly Enumerator re-visiting you...It's part of the random auditing of the work last year. A certain percentage of random auditing is built into every Census, and yes, it's truly random.
The first census began more than a year after the inauguration of President Washington and shortly before the second session of the first Congress ended. Congress assigned responsibility for the 1790 census to the marshals of the U.S. judicial districts under an act which, with minor modifications and extensions, governed census taking through 1840. The law required that every household be visited, that completed census schedules be posted in "two of the most public places within [each jurisdiction], there to remain for the inspection of all concerned..." and that "the aggregate amount of each description of persons" for every district be transmitted to the president.
Census results are incredibly important as they determine federal funding (and plenty of other things) right down to every square block of the entire country...Hospitals, emergency services, public schools, libraries, roads and maintenance, etc...
A ton of fascinating info is available at census.gov
Overviews of every Census https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/overview/1790.html
72 years after each Decennial Census the actual Census records (names and gathered info) become publicly available.
Post your coins from the Census years!
The Census started in 1790 and has been completed every 10 years since without fail.
Census years...2020, 2010, 2000, 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960, 1950, 1940, 1930, 1920, 1910, 1900, 1890, 1880, 1870, 1860, 1850, 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810, 1800, 1790.
Not my coin...but I can dream 
1790 Standish Barry, Baltimore - 15-20 known
By the way...As far as I can tell this is the only 1790 U.S. coin ever graded by our host... I'd love to know if I'm wrong!
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
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Ok, I'll start...a nice one from a roll while I was working for the Census last year
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Here’s 1820 and 1920 together on my newly-acquired Maine Centennial.
My Jefferson nickel registry
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset/188986
My classic commemorative registry
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/alltimeset/255614
1960 PR-DDO-005a.
Pre Cud variety.........
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
DDO-006.
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MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940
The 1890 census is the one that burned in archives fire in the 1930s - something like 98-99% was lost.
Cheers, RickO
Commems and Early Type
Looking for Top Pop Mercury Dime Varieties & High Grade Mercury Dime Toners.
I have a story about census that I won't tell......but here's 1 from 1960!
I did it too last summer; very painful with all the restrictions and citizens trying to avoid cooperation. Recent immigrants are much more cooperative and appreciative of the work census does.
For me 1880 would be an interesting year that fell on the census, many interesting and even some tough coins and notes in that year, especially the $20 Lib. in MS.
This may have been the coin that I ended up selling with Goldberg: http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/lot_auc.php?site=1&sale=48&lot=1612
I stupidly cracked out a PCGS 60 with a Euro look that after a quick dip in MS70 would never be Unc. again. 1880 the year the late President Grant after coming back from a worldwide tour wanted to be President again, but some key backers got cold feet and Garfield won the ticket and died soon thereafter.
Mr_Spud
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!
Congratulations on getting rehired by the Census Bureau. I guess they know they can count on you to do a good job.
Thank you kindly! I sure hope they can lol! I've been an Office Operations Supervisor and a Field Supervisor for them too...honestly some of the best employees I've ever managed and some of the best bosses I've ever experienced
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
And more importantly how many congressional seats for any one state
- Bob -
"Central Valley" Roosevelts
MPL's - Lincolns of Color
Don't believe I have seen 1870 yet...
Complete Set of Chopmarked Trade Dollars
Carson City Silver Dollars Complete 1870-1893http://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase.aspx?sc=2722"
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My registry sets
Sold for $86 on eBay, recently. For those keeping count.
If my tracking is correct we are still missing an 1830, 1970, 1990, 2000 and 2010.
Here's a 1970...
U.S. Type Set
Nice!!! Thank you for your thread census!
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Being a census I ought to give populations, huh?
So far the most common is 1820 x 4, although 3 of them were in 1 post.
1850 x 2, 1880 x 2, 1920 x 2, 1930 x 2, 1940 x 3, 1950 x 2, 1960 x 2 and 2020 x 2.
All other decade dates are individuals...
U.S. Type Set
Here's 2010!
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My registry sets
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That is a beaut and looks like a top pop too!
All I can say is that I have participated in the past 8 censuses. 1950, 60, 70, 80, 90, 00, 10, 20.
bob
PS: hope to participate in 2030 as well.
Wowee!!! Thank you sir! Awesome, just awesome.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
PCGS Pop = 3, only one finer:
Top coin in this date with a CAC. PCGS pop ONLY 2, only 1 finer as MS66RD, but that one does NOT have a CAC!
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
That coin is still raw and in a 2x2, but it did catch my eye as a nice shield cent type.
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How about a 1960 US Mint medal series?
Its name: "1960 Original Ike Dollars" or "Original Ikes" or "Class 2 Eisenhower Appreciation Medals" or "President of the United States (POTUS) Appreciation Medals".
Stuck by the US Mint in 1960 using existing US silver dollar size planchets (0.900 Ag and .100 Cu) from its stockpile of silver inventory. Obverse and reverse were designed by Frank Gasparro. Manufactured for exclusive use for President Eisenhower and awarded/gifted by him personally or through his direction.
The complete Eisenhower Appreciation Medal series (Class 1 through Class 4) has been unknown until research findings were published in 2014. Imagine that, 56 years before the entire series was documented (with exact mintages, US Treasury destruction inventory, designer, purpose, etc.). These US Mint medals are elusive to locate in high grades and many have been damaged through cleaning/mishandling or destroyed for its silver content. While others are held as presidential artifacts by original recipients or their heirs.
Class 2 1960 Eisenhower Appreciation Medals awarded/gifted during Ike's goodwill tours (Class 1 Eisenhower Appreciation Medal is the diameter of a US silver half dollar (upper right)).
The 1960 Paris Summit medal is the most intriguing. Awarded/gifted during the President Eisenhower's visit to Paris, France. The Paris Summit was doomed to failure as the U-2 incident and its cover-up unfolded. Research shows that of the original 1,200 minted, only 709 survived the destruction by the US Treasury Department prior to the end of Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term as POTUS. This is a true cold war presidential numismatic artifact.
The 1960 Japan medal is the rarest with only the 86 survived the destruction by the US Treasury Department prior to the end of Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term as POTUS. The original mintage was 500. Due to safety and security concerns of the presidential visit, President Eisenhower cancelled his tour of Japan. The Japanese Government could not guarantee President Eisenhower's safety due to the civil unrest stemming from revised security treaty between Japan and the United States, titled the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security.
The so-called Hagerty Incident. President Eisenhower's Press Secretary James Hagerty arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport to make advance preparations for the President's impending arrival. The protesters surrounded the car, rocking it back and forth for more than an hour while standing on its roof, chanting anti-American slogans and singing protest songs. Hagerty had to be rescued by a US Marines military helicopter with photographers documenting the end of the Hagerty Incident.
These medals are rich in US history from the year 1960. The Class 1, 3, and 4 are also interesting. The Class 5 was President Kennedy's appreciation medals. No other POTUS had appreciation medals manufactured by the US Mint.
Absolutely new information to me! Great write up and thanks for sharing. Something else to watch for now!
bob
Dated in a census year, but probably not made in one.
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I would have it graded and pay you what its worth minus grading $38 w/ TV.