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<p>[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3977135, member: 77639"]Happy New Year! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie76" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, no looking in the Redbook until you've made your best guesses!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>A few rules:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>a. If a mint produced more than one design of a particular denomination in a year, it is the total production of all designs for that denomination that will be used.</p><p><br /></p><p>b. Only circulation strikes of regular coinage count. Proofs, patterns, commemoratives and bullion coins don't count.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The quiz:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1. What was the first year that over a billion coins of a single denomination was produced by one mint? And what was the denomination and mint? Answer to the second question should be easy. Answer to the first not so easy. </p><p><br /></p><p>2. OK, now try this: What was the first year that a single mint produced over a billion coins of all denominations combined? And what was the mint? If you got the first question right without looking it up (I didn't), I bow low to your numismatic knowledge (or good luck). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="calcol, post: 3977135, member: 77639"]Happy New Year! :playful: OK, no looking in the Redbook until you've made your best guesses! [B]A few rules:[/B] a. If a mint produced more than one design of a particular denomination in a year, it is the total production of all designs for that denomination that will be used. b. Only circulation strikes of regular coinage count. Proofs, patterns, commemoratives and bullion coins don't count. [B]The quiz:[/B] 1. What was the first year that over a billion coins of a single denomination was produced by one mint? And what was the denomination and mint? Answer to the second question should be easy. Answer to the first not so easy. 2. OK, now try this: What was the first year that a single mint produced over a billion coins of all denominations combined? And what was the mint? If you got the first question right without looking it up (I didn't), I bow low to your numismatic knowledge (or good luck). :) Cal[/QUOTE]
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