Is Bowers and Merena wrong???

[carterhaines-migration]

I was recently checking out www.Bowersandmerena.com and I found a coin quiz. When I went to the link to see what the answers were, I saw that numerous ones were incorrect (or at least in my opinion). Please tell me what you think the real answers are so I can verify how wrong Bowers and Merena is. Here are the Questions:

 

1. A particular type of what colonial coinage shows the image of a wagon wheel with the legend THE.WHEELE.GOES.ROUND?

a. Brasher doubloon

b. John Chalmers' threepence

c. Higley copper

d. Carolina Elephant token

 

 

2. The term "cartwheel" is often used to refer to the American silver dollar. Which of the following actually depicts a cartwheel as a contemporary reference to that largest silver coin of the realm?

a. 1886 $5 Silver Certificate

b. 1896 Bryan money

c. Eckfeldt and Dubois' A Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations, 1842

d. 1837 hard times token, Low-51

 

 

3. The reverse of the Columbian half dollar of 1892-3 is sometimes called "the ship on wheels." Which ship is it supposed to be?

a. Nina

b. Pinta

c. Santa Maria

d. Serapis

 

 

4. On the Oregon Trail half dollar, the front and rear wheels on the Conestoga Wagon have different numbers of spokes. How many spokes does the rear wheel have?

a. 6

b. 8

c. 10

d. 12

 

5. One of the rarest large cent die varieties is known as the "Wheelspokes" variety for its six radial die cracks on the reverse. In what year was this famous rarity struck?

a. 1794

b. 1796

c. 1803

d. 1817

 

 

Bonus: The 1942 10 pfennig coin struck for the Lodz Ghetto in Poland was composed predominately of what metal, today used in multiple alloys for the production of automobile wheels?

 

 

Thanks!

 

 

[Hoot]

1. A particular type of what colonial coinage shows the image of a wagon wheel with the legend THE.WHEELE.GOES.ROUND?

 

Higley (copper) threepence. Not typical - unique.

 

2. The term "cartwheel" is often used to refer to the American silver dollar. Which of the following actually depicts a cartwheel as a contemporary reference to that largest silver coin of the realm?

 

I'm not 100% certain, as I'm going off of memory alone, but i think it's

a. 1886 $5 Silver Certificate

This certificate featured 5 Morgan dollars in a cartwheel arrangement on the reverse.

 

3. The reverse of the Columbian half dollar of 1892-3 is sometimes called "the ship on wheels." Which ship is it supposed to be?

 

c. Santa Maria (according to the Red Book and Bower's Commem. Coins of the U.S.)

 

4. On the Oregon Trail half dollar, the front and rear wheels on the Conestoga Wagon have different numbers of spokes. How many spokes does the rear wheel have?

 

d. 12 Counted 'em!

 

5. One of the rarest large cent die varieties is known as the "Wheelspokes" variety for its six radial die cracks on the reverse. In what year was this famous rarity struck?

 

I don't know! Can't find a reference.

 

Bonus: The 1942 10 pfennig coin struck for the Lodz Ghetto in Poland was composed predominately of what metal, today used in multiple alloys for the production of automobile wheels?

 

I believe this was properly known as the Reichspfennig and it was aluminum-bronze, so prmarily aluminum.

 

How'd I do? Hoot

[BankNote1]

The answer to question #2. is "C"...

[Hoot]

Thanks for the correction Banknote!!! What about #5?

 

Hoot

[BankNote1]

1829 N-7 Wheelspoke variety! There may be more than one wheelspoke, I just don't know.

[BankNote1]

I did some more digging and I think the answer to #5 is 1794. I can't find an exact reference but I think it was Sheldon #33??

The 1929 had 4 spokes???

Where are the EAC folks when you need them???

[carterhaines-migration]

Thanks, of the questions that I could answer my answers are the same as your answers, proving the quiz answers on Bowers and Merena wrong. If you dig up any more information, please post it here as your replies seem to conflict each others.

[Hoot]

Where are the EAC folks when you need them???

 

Trying to make cents of their collection?

 

Sorry. Not really. Hoot

[keithdagen]

Trying to make cents of their collection?

 

Ooohhhh. That was bad.