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chinga · Veteran Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 129 Location: Istanbul

[Trailhead?] The Mintage

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chinga · Veteran Joined: 18 Mar 2008 Posts: 129 Location: Istanbul

Got another e-mail a few seconds ago:

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:01 am

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**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:05 am

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NOC14672 · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 77 Location: Brazil.

Hi chinga,

The stamp says "In God we thrust" and the year is 1913. I am looking for people who receive the homage of the coin form at that year but for now I found nothing.

Edit: Ops, the stamp says "In God we trust" not "thrust".

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:54 am

amandel

HI! That coin is called a Barber Half Dollar, not usually rare & the mint mark on the reverse side determines its value. HTH

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:13 am

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cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

intriguing...i like the sense of style on this one...i'm in (for now)

ETA: when looking up mintage: i stumbled across the definition: The number of copies issued of a particular coin.

according to amandel's site posted there were 136 million minted...but what to do with the number?

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:38 pm

NOC14672 · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 77 Location: Brazil.

Thanks amandel for the information.

Cyng, look at this link http://barberhalf.com/barber-half-mintage and you will see that the number of Barber Half Dollars produced at 1913 are much smaller.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:53 pm

JLopez

I R N.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:42 pm

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

ah thanks NOC#slew of numbers

so i found a book called the mintage...can't find the publication date but the author died in 1915...so maybe it was published around 1913?

check out how badass the writer was: http://www.readprint.com/images/authors/elbert-hubbard.jpg

AND he died on the Lusitania, which is a pretty spectacular death

NO IDEA if its related or not

ETA: no such luck...published 1910...however, it is named after a Goethe quote: 'Tis here you'll find the mintage of my mind.--Goethe.

**Posted:** Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:06 pm

rexualhealing · Kilroy Joined: 24 Oct 2010 Posts: 1

I also just got this email and made an account for this site for the purpose of discussing it.

I thought it might be someone I know in real life because I'm a musician and I'm moderately prolific in my output I guess considering I have a day job and a social life and stuff. This is obviously not the case.

I stumbled upon this thread while I was looking for clues as to where this email came from. Weird.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:20 am

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

do you mind sharing the email? it might have clues?

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:26 pm

NOC14672 · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 77 Location: Brazil.

Coins

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:08 pm

cyng · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 366

good find!

I think its the quater...compare the slope of the nose, and the position of the T in Trust in relation to the forehead. Also the slope of the eye is different between the two coins, but unfortunately that "post" is in the way to really be sure.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:17 pm

NOC14672 · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2010 Posts: 77 Location: Brazil.

I think it's the quarter too, the 1913-S (minted in San Francisco) is the one with the lowest mintage (44000).

And cyng,

I was reading about Elbert Green Hubbard (the author of The Mintage), and there is a narration about his death aboard the Lusitania that I think, even if its not true (and I think its not, at least entirely) is awesome, and thats a really badass. Its a letter from one the survivors of the Lusitania:

"I can not say specifically where your father and Mrs. Hubbard were when the torpedoes hit, but I can tell you just what happened after that. They emerged from their room, which was on the port side of the vessel, and came on to the boat-deck.
Neither appeared perturbed in the least. Your father and Mrs. Hubbard linked arms � the fashion in which they always walked the deck � and stood apparently wondering what to do. I passed him with a baby which I was taking to a lifeboat when he said, "Well, Jack, they have got us. They are a damn sight worse than I ever thought they were."
They did not move very far away from where they originally stood. As I moved to the other side of the ship, in preparation for a jump when the right moment came, I called to him, "What are you going to do?" and he just shook his head, while Mrs. Hubbard smiled and said, "There does not seem to be anything to do."
The expression seemed to produce action on the part of your father, for then he did one of the most dramatic things I ever saw done. He simply turned with Mrs. Hubbard and entered a room on the top deck, the door of which was open, and closed it behind him.
It was apparent that his idea was that they should die together, and not risk being parted on going into the water."

Ernest C. Cowper, a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, in a letter to Hubbard's son Elbert Hubbard II (12 March 1916), published in Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard : His Mintage of Wisdom, Coined from a Life of Love, Laughter and Work (1922)

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:47 pm

Magnetoelectric

I came across the book as a downloadable pdf if anyones interested. (I guess it was published so long ago it fell/lapsed into public domain, so its free)

http://www.youpublish.com/files/18834[/url]

**Posted:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 4:56 pm