19th century articles on the 20-cent and 3-cent pieces

[Prethen]

For you history buffs out there, I thought these were kind of interesting:

 

Crusade against the 20-cent piece (The Colorado Banner, Boulder, Colorado – 11/29/1877)

 

Exit the 20-cent piece (The Courier (Colorado) – July 4, 1878)

 

The Five and Three Cent Currency (Daily Rocky Mountain News – July 17, 1866)

 

Counterfeiters plus other interesting news of the day (The Weekly Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colorado – May 23, 1878)

Ack! Counterfeit 20-cent pieces...is it possible?

[IGWT]

Cool! I really like reading contemporary articles on coinage of the time. Thanks for taking the effort to share them.

[michael]

oh my

 

my my my my my my my my my my my my

 

double dimes and the ubitiquis three cent piece

[EZ_E]

Great articles! Nice piece about the Montana Indian raid. Kind of puts one in the time frame.

 

Where did you find these?

[physics-fan3.14]

I really liked the third article down: "The reasonable expenses of transportation to any point accessible by railroad or steamboat will be paid by the mint." Why can't they still have free shipping?

[Prethen]

These articles were discovered by searching the Colorado Historical Newspaper Archive at www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org.

[chinook]

I love reading old newspapers.

 

Thanks for the post.

[TomB]

That is way freakin' cool! Thank you for taking the time to post them and to share the source links with us.

[MikeKing]

I love it, I absolutely love it...beer was 3 cents a glass...WOW!