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COIN QUIZ: Believe It Or Not!

Posted on November 2nd, 2010 by Editor

COIN QUIZ: Believe It Or Not!

From your editor’s files here is a little quiz you may find interesting. Give it a try! The late great Robert Ripley’s column furnishes the heading for this quiz. In each instance the answer is rather unlikely, from a logical viewpoint—but it is surrounded with other unlikely possibilities, so this is not as easy as [...]

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The Improbable Can Be True!

Posted on January 4th, 2010 by Editor

The Improbable Can Be True!

Without looking in the Guide Book of United States Coins or the Internet, see how many of these five questions you can answer. Get two or three right and you are doing well, for these are trick questions: emphasizing the improbable and obscure, but true! Concerning the 1924 Huguenot-Walloon commemorative half dollar: By an omission [...]

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