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2. Jamestown 400th Anniversary silver dollar - Wikipedia

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   In 2007, the United States Mint released a silver dollar commemorative coin which commemorates the 400th year after the founding of Jamestown.Surcharges from the sale of the Jamestown commemorative were donated to Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Secretary of the Interior and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to support programs that ...

3. Tanqueray - Wikipedia

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   Tanqueray London Dry Gin is the original product that was launched in 1830; its key botanicals are juniper, coriander, angelica root and liquorice. It is variously sold as: IMPORTED 47.3% ABV (United States, Canada, Germany and European duty-free shops) Export Strength 43.1% ABV (United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden [6] [7])

4. Early American currency - Wikipedia

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   The painful experience of the runaway inflation and collapse of the Continental dollar prompted the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to include the gold and silver clause into the United States Constitution so that the individual states could not issue bills of credit or "make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of ...

5. Portal:Numismatics - Wikipedia

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   All coins struck by the United States government with a value of 1 ⁄ 100 of a dollar are called cents because the United States has always minted coins using decimals. The penny nickname is a carryover from the coins struck in England, which went to decimals for coins in 1971.

6. Deflation - Wikipedia

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   The United States had no national paper money until 1862 (greenbacks used to fund the Civil War), but these notes were discounted to gold until 1877. There was also a shortage of U.S. minted coins. Foreign coins, such as Mexican silver, were commonly used. [27] At times banknotes were as much as 80% of currency in circulation before the Civil War.

7. Mount Rushmore - Wikipedia

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   In 1991 the United States Mint released commemorative silver dollar, half-dollar, and five-dollar coins celebrating the 50th anniversary of the monument's dedication, [109] [110] [111] and the sculpture was the main subject of the 2006 South Dakota state quarter.