COIN TRIVIA
DID YOU KNOW????
Remember, when you purchase a coin, you also receive a piece of history, and given as a gift, it is always worth something.
- That the Saint-Gauden's double eagle is the only modern coin of the United States to have a lettered eagle.
- That the first gold dollars issued in the U.S. were not by the government, but by a private coiner named Christopher Bechtler at a private mint he maintained at Rutherfordton, No. Carolina.
- That the largest gold nugget on record was found in 1869 in Victoria, Australia. It weighed 208 pounds.
- That the three major categories of errors are considered to be: die errors, planchet errors, and striking errors.
- That during the Civil War, the Confederacy issued approximately $2.5 Billion dollars.
- That the motto IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on a coin of the U.S. in 1864, during the Civil War.
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