French engraver Joseph Paquet minted the coin during the Civil War in 1861. This coin shows off Lady Liberty on one side and an American eagle on the other. Only 50 of these coins were ever produced. About 20 of them remain today. One was sold in Colorado during a 2021 auction. It wa...
Believe it or not, some of the most valuable dimes are worth more than $1 million. But what makes some dimes worth seven figures while others are worth just the “TEN CENTS” face value stamped on the coin? The delineation between rare dimes and common ones may not always be apparent at...
Washington quarters minted in Philadelphia in 1941, at the beginning of WWII, were still made of 90% silver and 10% copper. The mint produced 79,032,000 pieces because the end of the Great Depression raised economic activity. Consequently, it caused doubled coin mintage in this mint. Nowaday...
The identity of the portrait sitter was not the only mystery about this coin. It’s generally believed to have been made at the Soochow Mint, a relatively minor mint. That may have been a result of the political chaos at the time, when two separate governments were claiming to lead China...
Probabilityis the likelihood of an event in a Random experiment. For instance, if a coin is tossed, the chance of getting a head is 50% so, probability is 0.5. Sample Space: It is the set of all possible outcomes of a Random Experiment.Favourable Outcomes: The set of outcomes we are ...
In this case, the “e” stands for “elongated.” It’s one of those souvenirs you can get by putting a penny or other coin into a machine that presses it and stamps it with a logo for the specific touristattractionyou’re visiting. ...
Probabilityis the likelihood of an event in a Random experiment. For instance, if a coin is tossed, the chance of getting a head is 50% so, probability is 0.5. Sample Space: It is the set of all possible outcomes of a Random Experiment.Favourable Outcomes: The set of outcomes we are ...
The 1936 Dot Coins were also the last Canadian pennies that had the reverse design from 1920. If you recall, 1920 is when the coin got smaller and adopted the split maple reverse. This design had a maple leaf on each side with ‘One Cent’ and the mintage year in between....
If you are a collector that yearns to fill the collection list with die-break error coins, this one will interest you. Here, the coin’s error makes it have an extra cactus leaf on the reverse. Also, the coin has cud errors that cover the “2” or first zero of the 2008-mark. Su...