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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 26516002, member: 104064&quot;]Maybe because it was a 1797 half dime? I have no idea where Armstrong came up with this &quot;Jefferson coin&quot; story or that it was a denarius. What I found was this:</p><p><br /></p><p>Scroll down to the 1797 paragraph. &quot;In June, Jefferson received from the U.S. Mint dimes and half-dimes to the value of $300.00. A half-dime of 1797 was uncovered in archaeological excavations at Monticello.&quot; If a denarius had been found at Monticello, surely the official website would have mentioned it. </p><p><a href="https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/coin-collection/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/coin-collection/" rel="nofollow">https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/coin-collection/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Also this 1981 NY Times article. &quot;When Mr. Kelso&#039;s digging yielded a 1797 half dime - before the vintage of the contemporary Jefferson nickel, with its Monticello face - the household records here explained it. They show that Jefferson sent $600 to the United States Mint for a special coinage of the half dimes to pay the artisans at work on his house.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/19/garden/monticello-regains-18th-century-look.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/19/garden/monticello-regains-18th-century-look.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/19/garden/monticello-regains-18th-century-look.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s supposedly research on Jefferson&#039;s collection on NNP as mentioned here <a href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/periodical/630398" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/periodical/630398" rel="nofollow">https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/periodical/630398</a> but I&#039;ll be danged if I can find it. Maybe someone else is better at searching for it there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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