I found this photo of a 20th century "no gold" type set of 31 coins.In addition to the 20 or so unique designs jumpingrat mentions,it includes...
johndo, Good guess but I believe pence is just the plural of penny.."one penny,two pence." Linguistic Origin of Penny: "The origins of the word...
To complicate matters even further,the English word Penny is just an Anglo-ization of the original Germanic word Pfennig.I blame those...
Doug, I would love to order that book but in the meantime,can you answer a few other questions regarding the original packaging?I found a site...
LOL Fish...almost looks like double post. 09svdb...it's probably just the lighting.
Thanks DeOrc...it's from Yarm's post but I'll let him know you like it..LOL
Sure but the oldest one is only 97 years old and we're looking for the "oldest" cents.:rolling:
mali, It's another fantasy coin that sombody made probably just as a fun novelty.The Obverse is based on the US Indian Head cent design of...
Doug is absoloutely correct.I actually ordered this 1964 proof set (or my Dad did) and here is how it arrived. Sealed outer envelope and unsealed...
The Philadelphia,30 ran from 1955-1963.1964 said just Philadelphia (and the new zip code) and after that,they came boxed.As for the flaps,in my...
He designed the silver three cent "trime" and $1.00 gold indian as well.:)
I agree.
Wikipedia says maybe: "There is a popular rumor about the design of this coin, which states that Mr. Longacre used his daughter as his model for...
Jhonn, I just buy Harris/Whitman 2x2 holders for US coins but have found that 90% of foreign and ancients will fit into one of these 7 sizes...
Thanks clinker, Another good one.Maybe you could do trivia on some of the other US coin designers.It's amazing to me how many different well known...
Here's a pretty good place to start. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/worldofmoney/index.html
1798 large cent avg/good (or below) condition...208 years old
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