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Louisiana, New Orleans - $1 Citizens' Bank of Louisiana (1833-1911)
Unissued, Unsigned (1860s)
Notes Payable at Parent Bank in New Orleans
Plate B
American Bank Note Co. - New York
Fate: Unknown
Haxby LA-15-I-G2 ...

 


Louisiana Purchase Commemerative
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LOUISIANA PURCHASE
Thomas Jefferson had been elected President in 1800 and in 1803, he sent James Monroe to France to help Robert R. Livingston complete the negotiations for the acquisition of New Orleans and West Florida.

LOUIS XIII LE JUSTE (14/05/1610-14/05/1643)
Double tournois à la vieille tête, type de Warin, avec deux droits (perruque)
N° v18_1420 ...

The Louis is any number of French coins first introduced by Louis XIII in 1640. The name derives from the depiction of the portrait of King Louis on one side of the coin; the French royal coat of arms is on the reverse.

Louisiana joined the Union on April 30, 1812, becoming the 18th state. The Louisiana quarter design incorporates the image of a brown pelican, a trumpet with musical notes, and the outline of the Louisiana Purchase territory, ...

The Louisiana quarter, the third quarter of 2002 and eighteenth in the series, displays the image of Louisiana's state bird -- the pelican, a horn with musical notes, and the outline of the Louisiana Purchase territory, ...

This souvenir gold coin was minted for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held at Forest Park in St. Louis from April 30 - December 1, 1904. This was the first of two varieties of gold dollars authorized for the Exposition.

WASHINGTON - Congress has authorized the U.S. Mint to produce a silver dollar commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, creator of the alphabet for the blind.

Louis XVI on Obverse of 1786 Louis D'or
1786 - Coin of the Year -1786
French Gold Louis D'or
Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great) died and was succeeded by Frederick Wiliam (Friedrich Wilhelm) II on 17th August.

Louis Eliasberg is a name familiar to all students of American numismatic history.

Louis IX (1226-70) struck the first gold coins for France. The gold ecu was at first struck in very limited quantities; ...

Louisiana
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Louis Eliasberg was a financier from Baltimore who began collecting coins in the 1940's. In 1942, he was able to purchase the Clapp Collection. This was a collection formed by a father and son from Pittsburgh between the 1890's and the 1930's.

Louis Pasteur demonstrated that fermentation and the growth of microorganisms in nutrient broths was not caused by spontaneous generation. He exposed freshly
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- Louis Moskovits, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, circa 1934.
- Lichtenfels Collection sale (Kreisberg-Schulman) March 1964, Lot 1107.
- Lester Merkin sale of October 1973, Lot 457.

00 LOUISIANA PURCHASE/ McKinley - Cleveland, 1903. This is an Almost Uncirculated coin which has, at some point, been lightly cleaned. It "nets," due to cleaning, at ANACS Ex. Fine-40.

At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St.Louis, Missouri in 1904, two $1 pieces were offered dated 1903, one with the head of Thomas Jefferson who was president at the time of the Louisiana Territory purchase from France, ...

*542a---Louis VIII or Louis IX. 1223-26, 1226-1270. Denier Tournois. Cross, Lvdovicvs Rex/Castle, Tvronvs Civit. The last T in Civit is rare and we cannot find another example with this spelling. SCMF-2206ff. VF. $125 ...

1803 The Louisiana Purchase doubles the size of the United States
Napoleon, being short of cash, offers to sell Louisiana to the United States for 15 million dollars.

Short for Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., who was the only collector ever to assemble a complete collection of United States coins.
Emission sequence
The order in which die states are struck. Also, the die use sequence for a particular issue.

(O) New Orleans, Louisiana, 1838 to 1909.
Moneyer - An authorized mint master or coiner.
Motto - An inspirational word or phrase used on a coin.

During the wars of Louis XIV at the end of the 17th century, the value of gold fluctuated wildly, so that the gold coin was even marked up to 30 shillings at one point.

In reacquiring the Louisiana territory from Spain in 1800, France guaranteed not to transfer the territory to any power other than Spain. Nevertheless, within three years the French sold this vast territory to the U.S.

O Mintmark used to signify coins struck at the New Orleans, Louisiana branch Mint. O-Mint Term used for the coinage of the branch Mint in New Orleans, Louisiana. obverse The front, or heads side, of a coin. Usually the date side.

2002 Louisiana 50 States Quarter Dollar
1848 "CAL." Quarter Eagle
1796 Quarter Dollar
1796 "With Pole" Half Cent
1866 Seated Liberty Dime
2002 Ohio 50 States Quarter Dollar
1794 Franklin Press Token
1792 Silver-Center Cent ...

As the medalist to King Louis XVI, he is appointed to design new coinage for
France.  It is said that Dupré was almost obsessed with the images or
thoughts of a Guardian Angel at that time of his life.  Whether it is fact ...

Although the great Louis C. Eliasberg collection contained 11 Classic Heads, only 1834 and 1835 were Uncirculated, and one of his 1834 Plain 4 coins was cataloged Proof-60. The remaining examples went from Choice About Uncirculated down to EF-45.

Led by Pierre-Louis Maupertuis, French scientists came to TorneÅ to make observations to determine whether the terrestrial globe were spherical.

In France, the revolution that erupted with such force four years earlier, began the year with the beheading of Louis XVI, and that country's struggle with democracy degenerated into near anarchy with the Reign of Terror. Meanwhile, the fledgling U.

Louis and San Francisco. Since the Wells Fargo company had a banking arm to lean on, it was able to draw upon this resource to finance further development of its express service.

There is just a single Proof 1832 Dime known and it is a PCGS PR64 that I sold to a Louisiana specialist around a decade ago.

New Orleans The branch Mint established in 1838 in New Orleans, Louisiana. It struck coins for the United States until its seizure in 1861 by the Confederacy.

Louise de Marillac School in Pittsburgh. Teacher Zee Ann Poerio and her students have constructed a very impressive museum with the help of Ancient Coins in Education (ACE). I was honored to have my coin on exhibit.

Eliasberg
Short for Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. who was the only collector to assemble a complete collection of United States coins. Thus, the Eliasberg pedigree on a particular coin is held in the highest numismatic esteem.

New Orleans: the official U.S. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana that struck coins from 1838 to 1909.
NGC: abbreviation for the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (a third-party, independent grading service).
nick: a small contact mark on a coin.

Another collector, who is also a dealer in United States coins, looks remarkably like Louis Philippe I of France. His wife, noting this resemblance, bought him a crown size coin of this ruler for his birthday.

Grant
Lewis and Clark
Louisiana Purchase Jefferson
Louisiana Purchase Mckinley ...

In January 2006 an authentic 1885 Trade Dollar which was previously in the collection of legendary "King of Coins" banker, Louis E. Eliasberg Sr. was sold for $3.3 Million at an auction in Dallas, TX, USA.
Some 1885 Trade Dollar coin facts.

The mintmark of the U.S. branch mint at New Orleans, Louisiana, active from 1838-1861, and again from 1879-1909.
Obsolete
A coin design or type that is no longer being minted.

Gibbs, in his article in The Numismatist, associates the MR counterstamp with the rule of Louis I (1861-90), and sets the countermark date to 1865-67. He refers to articles by J.M. Folgasa.

6. PCGS AU 55 - Private Collection; B&M Galleries Bass Sale, 10/99, Lot # 1008, Harry W. Bass Collection, ex: Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr., 10/82, Lot 453.

Morgan & Peace Dollar Textbook by Wayne Miller.
Adam Smith Publishing, Metaire, Louisiana
Morgan & Peace Silver Dollars by Leroy Van Allen & George Mallis.
FCI Press / Arco Publishing, New York 1981.

I am grateful to Louis S. Flocco of the USA for the information that this alloy was chosen in order to match the electrical properties of the original cupronickel alloy so that it could be used in pay telephones and other vending machines.

example is the finest of 7 known examples. This coin's pedigree traces back to Al Overton himself, who sold it to Louis Eliasberg in 1953.

"D" - for Dahlonega, Georgia (on gold coins only, 1838 to 1861)
"D" - for Denver, Colorado (from 1906 to date)
"O" - for New Orleans, Louisiana
"P" - for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"S" - for San Francisco, California ...

Past U.S. Mints include
(C) Charlotte, North Carolina, 1838-1861
(CC) Carson City, Nevada, 1870 to 1893
(D) Dahlonega, Georgia, 1838-1861
(O) New Orleans, Louisiana, 1838-1909 ...

In 1838, the US operated four mints. The main mint was in Philadelphia. The branch mints were in Charlotte, North Carolina; Dahlonega, Georgia; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

For the florin denomination, this represented a 'false start' as in the following year, the coin was renamed the 'Gulden', a denomination which would, after the abdication of Louis in 1810 and the expulsion of the French in 1813, ...

Those without a mint mark, what a collector calls "plain," were made in Philadelphia.
CC is for Carson City, Nevada
S is for San Francisco, California
D is for Denver, Colorado
O is for New Orleans, Louisiana ...

(relatively new, reputation unknown) O New Orleans (Louisiana). Mintmark, 1838-1861,1879-1909. O# (O101-O128?) Overton number (1970). Die variety - Bust Half Dollars, 1794-1836. OMM Over MintMark. Two different mintmarks involved.

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