Obsolete and Unusual Coinage of the 19th Century
The 19th century in the United States was a period of great change and experimentation in the U.S. coinage System. Many different kinds of coins were tried out.
United States of America - Obsolete Currency
The standard reference for this material is the four volume set, "Standard Catalog of United States Obsolete Bank Notes, 1782-1866", by James Haxby, published by Krause Publications in 1988.
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obsolete - A coin series or specific design that is no longer in production. Obsolete coins have a certain appeal as they will never be produced again adding to the rarity.
Obsolete: A coin design or type that is no longer produced.
Obverse: The front (or "heads") side of a coin. It usually has the date, mint mark and main design.
Obsolete denominations
Half cent
Two-cent piece
Three-cent piece (silver and nickel varieties)
Half dime
Twenty-cent piece
Gold one dollar coin
Two-and-one-half dollar coin or "quarter-eagle"
Three-dollar coin ...
obsolete bank note
Note of an American bank of issue prior to 1865; a more accurate term than "broken" bank note, since many note-issuing banks converted into national banks or liquidated without failing. See also bank note.
Texas Obsolete Currency
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279 $1 Criswell-H14. Rarity-8. The Government of Texas. Fine, cut canceled. Worn with some very light soiling, but without any other problems of note.
Pai - An obsolete form of pay, from pie, an Indian copper coin.
[India, Siam, Thailand]
Paisa - Plural paise. Also pice. An aluminum coin and monetary unit, the 100th part of the rupee of India, Nepal and Pakistan. Another name for the poisha.
Pengo
An obsolete currency unit of Hungary. The collapse of the pengo after WWII produced the world's worst ever hyperinflation, with the pengo falling to below one-septillionth of a US dollar. It was replaced by the forint.
Generally, a term to describe coins with a finely pitted surface, however, recent discoveries of coins that have been exposed to saltwater for over a hundred years has made this term inaccurate, if not obsolete.
obsolete - a coin design or coins series that is no longer being produced. obverse - the front side of a coin. Usually the obverse side of a coin has the main design, date (year of issue), and sometimes a mintmark.
Obsolete bank notes covered are Union Bank of TN at Chattanooga, Bank of East TN at Chattanooga, Bank of Chattanooga. A census of the obsolete bank notes is used to project new rarity numbers for some issues.
Three of the seven silver coin denominations are now obsolete: the three cent, half dime and twenty cent. The three-cent coin was the smallest silver coin ever minted by the U.S.
The inexorable laws of nature, when applied to obsolete collectible items of any kind dictate a falling supply and increasing demand. Microeconomics teaches that these two ingredients result in upward pressure on the prices for the items in question.
The other type of gold coin you can purchase is a historical or 'obsolete' gold coin, which will have a large numismatic or collector value in addition to the value of its gold content.
What is obsolete currency (broken banknotes, wildcat notes)?
I heard there are a lot of counterfeit US notes worldwide, is this true?
Is it illegal to copy U.S. paper money?
Is it illegal to use U.S. paper money on products or in advertising?
Continued inflation will eat away purchasing power making many coins Obsolete (penny, nickel, dime and someday the quarter). Seriously, what can you buy today from a vending machine, or anywhere, that costs only a quarter?
Some coins trade so infrequently that by the time a new example becomes available, all price records are obsolete.
we have the following: the cent, which is in everybody's purse or pocket and which facilitates the payment of odd amounts of sales taxes (although scarcely a year goes by without someone capturing headlines by claiming that the "penny" is obsolete); ...
In addition, older $1 coins would be declared obsolete (but remain a legal tender) and six new state quarters would be authorized for 2009 - one for Washington, D.C.
If you collect this interesting obsolete denomination by type please go to our U.S. Classic Type Coins web page for a listing of all Three cents types for your selection.
They like the obsolete yet classic design featuring one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. They like the fact that all these large coins are silver. And many collectors remember using these half dollars during their youth.
Drachms, hemidrachms, and lower denominations were struck in bronze through the 2nd century, before inflation obsoleted these denominations. These circulated for hundreds of years, and it is rare to find one that grades above Fine.
as official standards for regulating the exact weights of the uncoined currency of his own time, as Reinach ingeniously suggests (L'hist. par les monnaies, p. 35 ff.), or whether he dedicated them to the goddess merely as specimens of the obsolete ...
Mint records show that when the order came down to melt all the twenty-cent pieces as obsolete, 12,359 pieces were on hand in Carson City, the bulk of which were the 10,000 1876 coins.
In particular, the Arms of Australia which had adorned the reverse of all the silver issues since 1910 had been obsolete since 1912 and was being replaced.
Then in 1992 1c and 2c pieces became obsolete but were not replaced. We were then introduced to the term 'rounding' where purchases of 1c and 2c were rounded down and 3c and 4c were rounded up to 5c.
Paper money of a defunct bank or a band which failed (broken), but often applied to any obsolete bank note.
BRONZE
An alloy of copper and tin, in varying proportions, generally with enough copper to retain the red colour.
Collector demand is pushing values for these old copper coins higher. The obsolete Half Cent, is always in short supply, and the popular American Large Cent is gaining value steadily.
Haxby, James A. Standard Catalog of United States Obsolete Bank Notes 1782-1866. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, Inc., 1988.
In 1982 it was considered that the word NEW was now obsolete, and the reverse legend changed to HALF PENNY.
Today money exists in the form of digital cash and such things as coins and bank notes will soon become obsolete. When this happens, the change in the nature of money will have a significant effect on our society.
broken bank note: Mos t accurately, paper money of a defunct bank or a bank that has failed (broken), but often applied to any obsolete bank note.
bronze: Coinage metal alloy containing chiefly copper and tin.
This variety could include pre US colonial currency, obsolete money from the 1800s, currency from the Confederate States of America, and souvenir cards of older money that's too rare to actually find and purchase.
On 16th October 1834, two officials burning obsolete tally sticks in the cellars caused a fire which burned down the British Houses of Parliament. The Houses of Parliament were finally rebuilt by 1852. They were bombed in 1941 and rebuilt after WWll.
This coinage was obsolete in early 1941. When independence was regained on 1991, the new currency was introduced in 1993. The current santims are struck in Germany and are as follows: 1, 2 S. (Cu plated steel), 5, 10, 20 S. (brass).
Jugate - Conjoined busts facing the same direction slightly offset from each other in such a way as to allow the bottom bust to be partially seen while the top bust is shown in its entirety. Several examples of this occur in the obsolete ...
The form of the numeral varied considerably over the years and included several forms that suggest the obsolete digamma was replaced with a variation of the letter S sometimes called stigma.
The mintages for these recent sets are extremely low! The 2008 Proof set is also a big winner. For obsolete coins, most Walking Liberty, Franklin, and silver Kennedy Half Dollars are undervalued according to many experts, but only buy high grades.
Though the previous coin issues remained current, many business strikes and proofs were melted, including the obsolete three-cent coins and half dimes. This action created rarities of many silver issues of the early 1870s.
Railroad, which had opened its own line to Pittsburgh in 1854 after opening the famous Horseshoe Curve crossing in the Allegheny Mountains near Altoona. This began Pennsylvania's process of liquidating the expensive and increasingly obsolete State ...
and slippers who had a penchant for cute little boys, commanded $100 per purple-ink-signed authentication of sometimes questionable Proofs, before he passed on to the Great Beyond. His autographs are now collector items. Papers were made obsolete by ...
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