Numismatic news

[shirohniichan]

Post a contemporary news story about the coins you collect.

 

Here's one from the July 4, 1875 edition of The Bulletin from Cairo, Illinois.

 

"-- Most of the twenty-cent pieces coined by the San Francisco Mint have gone into the hands of brokers, who retail them to the public at the very low price of 25 cents each."

[shirohniichan]

So no news is good news?

 

Here's one from the May 12, 1876 edition of the Memphis Daily Appeal:

 

"The unsophisticated may not know the difference between the new silver quarters and the twenty-cent pieces. The former are milled on the edges, while the latter are smooth, like the nickels. The quarters and twenty-cent pieces are near the same size."

 

This suggests to me that twenty-cent pieces weren't common in Memphis in the spring of 1876. When they became common there, however, I don't know.

[shirohniichan]

It seems like double dimes were oftentimes used in humorous quips or stories.

 

Here's one from The Troy Herald (Troy, MO), July 14, 1875:

 

"Our two-cent and five-cent pieces have the motto "In God we Trust"., but our new twenty cent piece hasn't. When a man gets that wealthy, he don't propose to trust anybody."

 

Them Missouriables is funny folk.