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A Vietnam vet takes the long way home - Dateline NBC | NBC News  Aug 26, 2005 ... When Gary was 2 years old, the family moved to Indiana. ... In declaring that he had died in honorable service, the Army had ... 1969, the last place John had been seen was not Vietnam, but ... But John didn't turn up where he was born in Texas, or any place else. ... He had let us hang like this for 25 years.
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In 1965, what did people do when.. [Archive] - Kitco Forums  In '65, what did people do when coins reduced the silver content? ... It might take a few years, but copper prices could creep up enough that the ... something, but most of us didn't put one away in a barn for later. ... LIFE Magazine on May 2, 1969 had an article "How to make a buck with dimes and quarters"...
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Chapter 19: Eisenhower Dollars, Historical Background - PCGS.com  For some curious reason the Eisenhower dollar of 1971-1978 is considered ... landing of July 1969 with a coin, and the dollar denomination was chosen. ... Eisenhower, the distinguished five-star general and retired president, had died in 1969 ... but later the Mint Bureau asked that the earth be made more recognizable to...
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A Quick Look at Silver-Clad Kennedy Half Dollar Circulation Strikes  Mar 25, 2013 ... No write up on the Kennedy half is complete without a description of the ... 1965-dated silver-clad half dollars entered circulation in the spring of '65. ... at the number of coins submitted for grading over the 25 years that PCGS has .... to the two plus million pieces struck gives us confidence in our belief that...
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In August 1969, after 34 years, Dorothy Hodgkin identified the ...  Jun 24, 2016 ... In a 1969 Disney film, Herbie was this model of car # Quiz # Question. 0:29 ... He died in 1969 but popped up on a U S  dollar coin 2 years later...
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Susan B. Anthony dollar - Wikipedia  The Susan B. Anthony dollar was a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981, when ... A provision was added requiring the coin to depict recently deceased .... the Mint by the general public as to the subject of the dollar coin, and Susan B. ... The first Susan B. Anthony dollars were struck at the Philadelphia Mint on...
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Half dollar (United States coin) - Wikipedia  The United States half dollar coin, sometimes referred to as the fifty-cent piece or simply the half, is a United States coin worth 50 cents, one-half of a dollar, and is the largest U.S. coin currently minted, in both size and weight, being ... As a result of its decreasing usage, a large amount of pre-2002 half dollars remain in...
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Leif Ericson Coin | eBay  2000 Leif Ericson Millennium U.S. & Icelandic Proof Silver Dollar Set of 2 Coins ... The coin was produced in conjunction with the simultaneous minting and ... States Mint to commemorate the Millennium of the discovery of the new world by Leif...
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The U.S. Dollar: Currency Masquerading as Money - Lew Rockwell  Apr 11, 2014 ... These dollar bills were redeemable IN GOLD COIN, PAYABLE TO THE ... lives, he argues that the Fed has an important job to do: to keep inflation under 2 ... It lost value twice during this time, in the American Revolutionary War ... of the U.S. dollar increased 50%.[4,5]. As originally defined, inflation means...
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$2 Bill History - The $2 Dollar Bill - America's Rarest US Currency  The $2 Dollar Bill is America's Rarest Current Denomination of US Currency ... The two-dollar denomination was discontinued from 1966 until 1976 when use of ... Jefferson's estate and home Monticello had an admission price of $13. ... dollar bills featuring President Jefferson's portrait as change for admission to his estate.
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Collecting Modern Commemorative Coinage - Liberty Coin Service  The U.S. Mint has struck commemorative coins every year since 1982 except ... (Half Dollar, Dollar, Five Dollars, Ten Dollars, and the Iceland 1000 Kronur) ... culating commemorative coins (and non-circulating silver versions)for that ... bought individually or in two, three , four and six coin sets in .... Leif Ericson Millennium.
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Kennedy half dollar - Wikipedia  The Kennedy half dollar, first minted in 1964, is a fifty-cent coin currently issued by the United States Mint. Intended as a memorial to the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, it was authorized by Congress just over a month after his death.
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THE "MASONIC" ONE DOLLAR: Fact or Fiction?  May 2, 2012 ... The ritual of Freemasonry is well endowed with symbols  things familiar that .... Further more it was never really seen until 1935 when it appeared on the dollar bill. ... can form overlapping equilateral triangles and this, the Star of David, ... Now let us pay attention to the Treasury Seal  the side with George...
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1864-1873 Shield Two Cents | NGC  The motto and the coin itself were both direct results of the Civil War. ... Up to then, U.S. coinage had carried no reference to a supreme being. ... On the first trial striking of the two-cent piece, the motto that appeared was GOD OUR TRUST.
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Chapter 19: Eisenhower Dollars, Historical Background - PCGS.com  For some curious reason the Eisenhower dollar of 1971-1978 is considered something ... landing of July 1969 with a coin, and the dollar denomination was chosen. .... was held to design the back of the Eisenhower dollar just for this event and...
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The Franklin Half Dollar - PCGS.com  "Franklin's likeness will soon appear on a brand-new half dollar of regular issue. ... John W. Snyder became the proud owner of the first two Franklin half dollars struck. ... Secretary Snyder said he had shown the coin to President Truman, and ... half dollar issued for the Sesquicentennial of American Independence in 1926.
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Condition Rarity for Moderns - Coin Community Forum  US Coins & Currency ... More than 8 billion 2000-D Lincoln cents were struck. ... Such low-mintage issues include the Proof 1995-W American Eagle silver ... million coins each, compared to a few hundred million pieces for the 1979, ... 2005-P Kennedy half dollars from last year's Uncirculated Mint sets.
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Penny History - Americans for Common Cents  In 1909, Abraham Lincoln was the first historical figure to grace a U.S. coin when he was portrayed on the one-cent coin to commemorate his 100th birthday. ... In 2009, to honor the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, four penny designs...
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Mint-made errors | Open Access articles | Open Access journals ...  They use a steel rod to imprint the coin's design in it with a hub bearing a relief ... In U.S. coinage, many coins from the Morgan dollar series show slight die cracks. ... A well-known example is the "Bugs Bunny" Franklin half dollar of 1955, where part .... Some examples include cents struck on dime planchets, nickels on cent...
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November 1, 2008  Glaciers This country's 1996 2-dollar coin features Queen Elizabeth on one ... It takes about 22,500 of these Belarussian monetary units to equal 1 American...
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Half dollar (United States coin) - Wikipedia  Design, Presidential Seal. Designer, Frank Gasparro. Design date, 1964. The United States half dollar coin, sometimes referred to as the fifty-cent piece or simply the half ... The only other U.S. coin that has been minted as consistently is the cent. Though rarely used today, half dollar coins have a long history of heavy use...