Give and Take, a Trivia game

Well, it's been 24 hours since you posted the question, so I suppose I can give an answer again...

1. 1982-P Lincoln Memorial Cent (0.01¢) -- Mintage: 10,712,525,000

2. 2000-P Sacagawea Dollar ($1.00) -- Mintage: 767,140,000


The above mintages were cited from the 2010 Redbook.

 

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A poster asked the question, why did they choose the size they chose when they went from the large cent to the flying eagle cent. The reason was that the coin weighed a proper fraction of an ounce (15%) they further reduced the weight later when they ceased the nickle component of the cent and made it the Bronze alloy of 3.11 grams (48 grains)

 

Krispy is correct and will soon run away with odds to win this contest.
The prize will end up being a Washington Quarter and a Mercury Dime from the same year.

Ready for your question-

My answer might take a while, I will be gone most of tomorrow (off to a coin show!).

 

No worries. Have a good time at the coin show. I will work on another question in the morning and post later for you. :smile

 

To be answered by camlov2 ONLY:

President George Washington helped usher in the U.S. coinage tradition that frowns upon the use of a living persons' likeness on U.S. coins, however Calvin Coolidge was the only President to have his portrait on a coin during his lifetime when he appeared in a dual portrait with Washington on the 1926 Sesquicentennial of American Independence Half Dollar Commemorative Coin. Despite Coolidge's appearance, he was not the first statesman to appear in his lifetime on a U.S. coin, who was the other person and what was the coin he appears on?

 

TE Kilby, Govener of Alabama on the 1921 Alabama Centennial half dollar.

Couldn't this also count?
King Kamehameha III on the 1847 Hawaiian issue cent.

 

Hawaii wasn't a state until we grabbed it up in 1959, so he wouldn't have been on the coin contemporaneously. Hurray for AP US History!

 

Yep! Kilby and the 1921 Alabama Centennial is right.

I don't know how they handle this topic in regards to the King but I will posit that he was a 'monarch' and not an elected official of any authority running the United States -- Hawaii didn't enter the Union until 1959.

 

Thanks Cube

 

Krispy X 3

Next question-

Star notes appear on many different types of currency.
The star on early bills did not have any meaning, but the star does have meaning today.

First question, when did this change occur?

Second question, why are star notes now produced?

MPC's (military payment certificates) do not use a star note for the reason given in question #2.
Third question, what is different about MPC's to show this special circumstance?

 

Is this an everybody question?

 

I believe it is, but if you have already answered one correctly and been entered into the contest, you have to wait 24 hours before you can post the answer for successive questions... that'd be me. :smile

 

1. First were used as replacements in 1911 on issues of 1899 $1 silver certificates
2. When an error is found by the BEP, they replace the note with a star note, that does not share the same serial number as the original note.
3. They have a lack of a suffix letter at the end of the serial number.

 

Sounds good. I always find it interesting when there are auctions on ebay for a "STAR NOTE!" when it is an older note.

Ready for your question-

 

The point is for you not to be able to answer it correctly right?

 

The approximate 1,000 1793 chain cents of all kinds known to exist today is what percentage of the original mintage?

 

I would have never guessed this high but about 2.8%

 

Question for anyone (if you are already entered you have to wait 24 hours)-

Take all of the pennies produced in 2000 and lay them end to end. How many times would they reach around the earth? (round to the nearest whole number) (around the equator)

 

I used the redbook as a source for the 2000 mintages and the site below for the approximate circumference of the earth (about the equator):

http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzcircumference.htm

and for penny diameter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)


Mintage (Including proof sets:
14281467990 Coins x (19.05mm/Coin) x (.001km/mm) = ~272061965.20 km

272061965.20 km / 40,075.16 km = 6788.79

~6789

Obviously my answer might be slightly varying from yours, depending on the figures used (I tried to go as precise as ossible)

 

That isn't the answer I got, I will double check my math and yours and see what I come up with. Of course you also used those crazy km things.

Found your error, not going to say it yet because I don't want to make it easier on others.