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So duke posted before 24 hours, chip edited his post, and Krispy wins again.
I love this place, it is just like work. (I teach Jr High math)

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BTW: I prepared the note identifying each figure in case anyone had trouble seeing the figures to count them.

Reverse vignettes of Fr. 431 with 40 Figures Circled in magenta and the disembodied arm in yellow.

 

thank you. it makes perfect sense too

 

To be answered by camlov2 ONLY!

Your question deals specifically with the mintage history of the Lafayette Dollar:

A. The 2010 Redbook cites 32,026 Lafayette dollars were distributed out of the 50,000 mintage limit Congress authorized for this coin. What was the originally proposed mintage limit requested for this coin and in what denomination?

B. How long did it take to strike the entire mintage of the Lafayette Dollar?

C. What was the significance of the date minting began?

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X-tra Challenge question for camlov2 ! ! !

***If you so choose to take on the challenge question and answer incorrectly, you then agree to award me an additional entry into the contest for this round.***

Avoid answering the challenge question entirely and I only get one opportunity with this round, that being from the above mintage question.

To clarify, the mintage question (above) is worth ONE entry should you get it wrong -and- the X-tra Challenge question (below) is worth ONE entry should you get it wrong, for a total of TWO entry opportunities. However, if you attempt to answer both and only get one correct, it does not void my overall opportunity for getting ONE entry for the question you answered incorrectly. One correctly answered question does not render both questions invalid, they are exclusive of each other.

This is a one time bonus request that I will not ask of you again in any subsequent rounds of this contest should I get the chance to ask you another question later. No further 'X-tra Challenge' questions may be used by any subsequent contestants.

Do you feel lucky camlov2? Here goes...

Who received the first Lafayette Dollar struck and who in turn, did this person give this coin to?

 

I do not take your challege. Why? Because there is nothing I can win.

However, here are your answers-

1a) They were going to mint 100,000 coins in a half dollar denomination. (same value but more coins)

1b) All coins were minted on December 14, 1899.

1c) This date was exactly 100 years after Washington's death

2) The first coin was given to President McKinley who had the coin presented to French President Loubet.

 

Correct answers on all accounts! ...Doh! No entries for me!

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I didn't know you were competing to win something. I thought this was a contest in which you'd be giving something out at some point to a contestant.

 

Entries- Krispy (4), swish513, d.t.menace, wassappening, Duke Kavanaugh, lincolncent, and cubenewb.

Next question- (somewhat like the last one)

What bill or coin shows the most wings on it? (you get to use both sides this time)

To make counting a little easier all birds have two wings.
Example-the Idaho quarter, even though you can only see one wing it counts as two.
That way we don't have any arguements regarding what you can and can't see.

 

We only need five more entries to the end point...

You all have a chance to catch up with me, I will be off line most of this coming weekend...

 

As long as I don't know the answer off the top of my head you earn credit for the question.
I just wanted to make sure my questions were hard enough that I had to do some research.

Here is a scan of the prize for the contest, finally got a chance to pick them up. Both 1942 D

 

Very nice offerings! Thanks again for the chance at the contest. This one is much more engaging than some, plus it is maintaining the educational level I think I you were after from the outset.

 

This is completely unrelated to the current question, but in my searchings I found this cool piece of history. This was apparently what the current reverse of the dollar bill first looked like; notice the pyramid and the great seal are swapped from what we normally see today. Below it you can see a little scribbled drawing by president FDR; amazing to see that those little pen strokes swapped the placings of the two images on the dollar bill! I'm sure many of you have seen this but this was my first time seeing it

 

It's actually new to me! I really enjoy seeing this piece. Thanks for sharing it with us.

 

wow, do we know who owns that piece of history?

I would love to hear the story about why he felt those needed to be switched.

 

It's from this page: Wikipedia.org - Great Seal of the United States

I'd guess it to be in BEP Archives or National Archives.


There's a foot note [7] that links to the following PDF of which the plate is reproduced on page 13.

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs. State.gov/documents/organization/27807.pdf.
Retrieved 2009-02-03.

 

24 hours are up and still no entries. 12 more hours and any answer would be the winner.

 

'Wings' Entry

You say "coin or bill." I daringly offer up a commemorative medal, assuming that it still fulfills the criteria as a "coin." The Woman Airforce Service Pilots of World War II Congressional Gold Medal commemorates the service of the historic WASPS. Below is the picture (I adopted krispy's notation from the last round), I found 18 wings.

 

since that was a medal i will offer up as any answer the 1962 us quarter. 2 wings and one wig. unless you count the bow on the pony tail as 2 more wings

 

I will say the 1886 5 dollar silver certificate, the reverse shows 5 Morgan dollars, 4 reverses shown, but since we know there is one on the center one that would be 8 (potentially ten wings) I am unsure as to the criteria, but there are at least 8.

http://usrarecurrency.com/1886$5silvercertificatesilverdollarbacksnb12422614.htm

This time I copied the link first. Instead of adding it later

 

I can't decide if the token should count or not so here is my solution-
Using this site http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110426/anatomy/parts.html I will say that only the front of the plane has wings, the back are fins.

Therefore cubenubes answer only has 10 wings.
Chip's bill has 5 coins or 10 wings.

Call it a tie, both of you get to submit me a question.