PennyGuy's 1000 Post Contest

To celebrate my 1000th post here at CoinTalk I thought it would be approporiate to hold a contest.

The Contest:
This contest is open to all young numismatists, I'm defining that as 14 years old and younger. There are three questions to answer. Please word your answer clearly and cite your reference sources so all may learn.

It is possible that the references entrants provide might differ from the reference I have used to establish the questions, and that's fine as long as the research gets done and cited.

The winner will be the first to post the correct answers to all three questions. The post date/time of each response will be used to judge who submitted the correct answers first.

This contest begins with this posting and ends when I declare a winner. Replies to this contest should be posted in this thread. If you have the correct answer your post will give you an earlier date/time that any subsequent posts. Hopefully we will have a winner by tomorrow, Monday, evening.

The prize: Three 2" x 6" Capital Plastics holders. These holders are old, from my first type set back in the 19XX's, well lets just say they are from the last Century They are still quite servicable, and have a white center layer.
The holders are:
US Type Cents Capital # CP-412A
US Type Nickels Capital # CP-412B
US Type Dimes Capital # CP-412C
A picture of these holders is attached below.


Here are the three questions.
Question 1. When was the Act of Congress that established the US Mint passed?

Question 2. What was the first coin produced by the US Mint.

Question 3. Name the US Mints, past and present.

You may begin.......

 

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Been a long time since I saw 14.....

Great contest for the young folks PennyGuy.

 

Thanks, these holders go way back to when I was a YN. They're pratically antiques LOL

 

Darn! I just turned 15 a few days ago....

Oh well!

 

1) The first American Secretary of Finance, Robert Morris, first urged the Continental Congress to establish a mint in 1782. In 1786, Congress ordered the Board of the Treasury to study the subject, but not until April 2 1792, did the new government authorize the creation of a mint. http://www.answers.com/topic/us-mint

2)11,178 copper cents were the first coins made by the mint http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/?action=history

3) Washington D.C.,Philidelephia, Denver, San Fransico, West Point,Manila, Carson City, New Orleans, Charlotte, Dahloneg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_United_States_mints



Im sorry I had to edit it it because i forget to say something! I am 12 years old!

 

did I get the right answers?? I would love those coin Holders!! I really need some more but I can't find any coin stores or anyone that has any coin holders in my area and my parents wont travell just to get me holders or anything coin related!! It is hard when your only 12 years old!

thanks for the contest Penney Guy
-acodym

 

Congratulation acodym, you are the winner. This was easy because you are the only one to do a little research and post the right answers. I do want to point out that you listed 10 US Mint locations, there are only 9. But you did have the 9 listed. The reference you cited does not list Washington DC as having a mint.

The Capitol holders shown are yours. Please PM me with a mailing address so I can get them out to you.

Thanks for participating and happy collecting

 

Congratulation acodym! Nice contest!

 

Thank you PennyGuy!! This is the first contest I have won!

 

I think DC had the FIRST mint, or at least the first coins (half dismes I believe?) were minted somewhere in there...congrats, and great contest.

 

Acodym did a good job providing references for his answers.

 

good job acodym!

 

I agree, I was just recalling some info.

 

Great contest. I'm only 45 years away from being elegible to enter. Dam* nice thing you're doing to garner interest in the hobby.

Bruce

 

Actually, the first half dismes were struck in 1792 at 7th street & Sugar Alley in Philadelphia.

Nope, I cannot find any reference to a mint in DC.

 

I hear ya Frank, the winner quoted the US Mint web site, and provided his reference.

 

what do u put in the holders? what money does it hold?

 

Here is a link to a good supplies dealer. Page 12 of the Capital catalog shows the type holders and the coins they hold
Type Cents = Large Cent, Flying Eagle, Indian Head, Lincoln Wheat ears, and Lincoln Memorial

http://www.jakesmp.com/CSD_Capital_Plastics/000_Capital_M.html

 

I still havent recieved those coin holders in the mail yet!! But think theyshould be here tomorrow or the next day! Its been 8 days so far so there not like late or anything.

 

I just received the holders in the mail about an hour ago. Thanks alot Penny Guy for the Holders!! I Have 2 for cents and 1 for dimes and Nickels. Now I got to get the rest!!