Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
History. The United States ten-thousand-dollar bill was printed from 1878 to 1934. The $10,000 note first appeared in the Series 1878 legal tender. It was reissued in the series 1914 and 1918 and in the series 1928 and 1934. [1] The 1878 large-size "Horse Blanket" $1 measured 7.38 in (187 mm) by 3.18 in (81 mm), and the 1928 series measured 6. ...
In the French Congo, iron bars, shovels, hoes, blades, and iron double bells played the role of currency. In mid-nineteenth-century Nigeria, a slave cost 40 iron hoes. In 1824, 394 currency bars were found, 1.2m below the surface, at a re-used camp on Meon Hill, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Mickleton, Gloucestershire .
1943 steel cents are U.S. one-cent coins that were struck in steel due to wartime shortages of copper. The Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco mints each produced these 1943 Lincoln cents. The unique composition of the coin (low-grade steel coated with zinc, instead of the previously 95%-copper-based bronze composition) has led to various ...
A $5 United States Note, Series of 1928F. The very first 1928 Silver Certificate issued (i.e., Serial number 1). The Series of 1928 was the first issue of small-size currency printed and released by the U.S. government. These notes, first released to the public on July 10, 1929, were the first standardized notes in terms of design and ...
By 1776, up to 80 iron furnaces throughout the American colonies were producing about as much iron as Britain itself. If one estimate of 30,000 tons of iron each year is accurate, then the newly formed United States was the world's third-largest iron producer, after Sweden and Russia. Notable pre-19th-century iron furnaces in the US
For years, the Mint's production and shipping costs for cents have exceeded the face value of the coin (the Mint's fixed costs and overhead, however, are absorbed by other circulating coins). [34] As a result, the U.S. Treasury loses tens of millions of dollars every year producing cents. For example, the loss in 2013 was $55 million. [35]
The United States Bicentennial coinage is a set of circulating commemorative coins, consisting of a quarter, half dollar and dollar struck by the United States Mint in 1975 and 1976. Regardless of when struck, each coin bears the double date 1776–1976 on the normal obverses for the Washington quarter, Kennedy half dollar and Eisenhower dollar.
The Eisenhower dollar is a one-dollar coin issued by the United States Mint from 1971 to 1978; it was the first coin of that denomination issued by the Mint since the Peace dollar series ended in 1935. The coin depicts President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the obverse, and a stylized image honoring the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon mission on the reverse.