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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Skippy Topaz, post: 7474890, member: 76224&quot;]Recently picked up this 12 1/2 Cent Obsolete note mostly because of it’s unique denomination… not sure if it qualifies as an Obsolete or as a Fractional (or both, though it&#039;s a full size note, not fractional size) but it’s different than the other notes in my collection as it kind of goes against most of the things that attract me to obsoletes (which is the beautiful designs and ornate artwork on a lot of them) but 12 1/2 cents is such an odd number for currency and I’d never seen one before and had to add it to the collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>It’s dated 1841 which makes it 180 years old, which also really cool.. It turns out that in 1841 we had three U.S. presidents.. Martin Van Buren finished his term and then William Henry Harrison took over but died a month later from pneumonia, so John Tyler took over. So, in one year we had our 8th, 9th and 10th Presidents.</p><p><br /></p><p>1841 was also the year the Supreme Court ruled on the AMISTAD rebellion, Edgar Allen Poe’s “Murder in the Rue Morgue” was published and became recognized as the first significant work of Detective Fiction, Fordham University was established, the city of Dallas was founded, Samuel Adams was murdered, the concept of Probation was developed in Boston for lesser offenders,&nbsp; Whitman’s Chocolate Company opened it’s doors and the first self-propelled Steam Pumper Fire Engine was built in New York.. a lot happened that year while this note was in circulation.. pretty cool. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1294072[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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