http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20060223083909990027&ncid=NWS00010000000001 Call me crazy, but I don't remember the U.S. ever making a penny. Also, what are the 11 cent designs??
I don't want to even get started on AOL accuracy or anything else. Briefly AOL sent me a new version. I installed it. My computer went nuts. I used a back up computer to attempt to contact AOL. 73 emails and numerous phone calls to some idiots in India and I finally took my computer somewhere to be fixed. They said it was a faulty AOL program that caused the problem. I contacted AOL main office. As usual got an email reply saying basically to bad sucker. Just remember that almost all of AOL is in India. What do they care about the US except for the money.
Let's give the blame where it's due. AOL didn't write the column, any more than CoinTalk, or my ISP, is writing this post. The Motley Fool is a self-styled professional financial analyst investment adviser - after reading that bit of poorly researched fluff take a guess about how often I rely on their advice. According to the Red Book: Flowing hair, chain reverse Flowing hair, wreath reverse Liberty Cap Draped bust Classic head Coronet Flying eagle Indian head Lincoln, wheaties Steel cents Lincoln, memorial reverse And for the record, half-cents share the distinction of being the first US coins authorized, and I don't believe there is any record of whether the very first coin struck was a half or a whole cent.
Nice research Satootoko. I see where 09-S VDB is coming from though. At first it seems like a mistake until you get creative and read into it.
Easy, insert the link to its source in your post -http://boards.collectors-society.com/images/graemlins/893censored-thumb.gif
Actually, that isn't true. AOL is based in Dulles, Virginia and by far the vast majority of their workforce is located in the US. What they do, though, is contract out their telemarketing (as MANY major companies do), including their inbound customer support. They use a number of different firms to do their telemarketing/phone support (I used to work for one of those telemarketing firms) including the increasingly more popular Indian firms. It is very likely that if you call AOL you will be routed to a telemarketing firm in India, but that is not guaranteed, there are some in the US still. Anyway, my point is that whoever you talked to in India is not an employee of AOL and never has been, they are just inbound telemarketers, trained to deal with AOL's disgruntled customers.
I almost took a job with them. It was an interesting place to see and that part of virginia is unique. Ruben
LOL! But I think the censored does more than the red X. I think you have to put the full address, you're missing quite a bit.
Crispy: Right click on the graphic, click on "properties", and copy the entire URL - you may have to scroll a bit to see it all, and then paste that between "" to put the graphic in your own post.
