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Continental currency 1/3-dollar note (obverse), with the inscriptions "Fugio" and "Mind your business".. On April 21, 1787, the Congress of the Confederation of the United States authorized a design for an official copper penny, [3] later referred to as the Fugio cent because of its image of the Sun and its light shining down on a sundial with the caption, "Fugio" (Latin: I flee/fly, referring ...
Found alive 65 days 2005 Scout Taylor-Compton: 16 United States American actress who went missing on August 12, 2005, in southern California and was found two weeks later. She had run away from home. [137] Found alive 2 weeks 2005 Alicia Ross: 25 Canada Canadian woman who mysteriously disappeared from her home in Markham, Ontario, on August 17 ...
I am so disappointed in my goverenment,” Penny McCarthy, 66, seethed. ... and they insisted she was a 70-year-old Oklahoma woman named Carole Anne Rozak, who skipped out on her probation in 1999 ...
An avid coin collector shelled out more than $2.5 million at an Orlando auction last Thursday -- the most anyone has ever spent on a one-cent piece. This 1792 Birch Cent is one of around 10 ...
Hans Keimes was a 17-year-old youth last seen alive alive in south Hanover on 17 March 1922. [75] His nude, bound body was found in a canal outside the city on 6 May. Keimes is strongly believed to have been murdered by serial killer Fritz Haarmann , though Keimes' murder remains officially unsolved.
When Don Lutes Jr. was just 16 years old, he discovered a rare Lincoln penny among his lunch money change while getting food at his Massachusetts high school back in 1947.
1. 1943-D Lincoln Bronze Wheat Penny — $2.3 million Designed by Victor D. Brenner, this is one of the highest-value pennies in circulation today. During World War II , pennies were made of steel ...
The first official mintage of the large cent was in 1793, and its production continued until 1857, when it was officially replaced by the modern-size one-cent coin (commonly called the penny). Large cents were made of nearly pure copper , or copper as pure as it emerged from smelting , without any deliberate addition of other metals (such as ...