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The bird pictured on the American silver dollar was a real eagle named Peter. From 1830 to 1836, people who worked at the United States Mint adopted him to use as model for the drawings. When he died after getting his wing injured in the coining press, they stuffed him. He is still on display in the lobby of the Philly mint https://i.postimg.cc/fTnw07bC/Peter-the-Mint-Eagle.jpg |
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Not only do money engravers work with incredible precision, but they also have to illustrate backwards. The design they cut into the plates is the mirror image of what it will look like when it is printed. It takes 12-15 years of training to become an engraver. |
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There are more than 1.6 million ATMs in the world. There is even one in Antarctica. Friday is the most popular day at the ATM. The average amount withdrawn from an ATM is $80. |
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The worst market crash in the United States lasted two years (1930-1932) and helped spawn the Great Depression. A thousand dollars invested in September 1929 was worth just $108.14 in July 1932. |
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The two facilities of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (one in Fort Worth, Texas, and one in Washington, D.C) together use about 9.7 tons of ink—per day. |
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The Philadelphia Mint has the capacity to make 1.8 million coins an hour, 32 million coins per day, and 13.5 billion coins every year. The Philadelphia facility is the largest mint in the world |
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The “FW” on the bank note means the bill was printed in Fort Worth, TX. If there is not an “FW,” the bill was printed in Washington, D.C https://i.postimg.cc/brd2DxNp/uty.jpg The letter inside the seal on a bill (on this bill it is "B") shows which of the 12 Federal Reserve banks issued the bill (A: Boston, B: New York, C: Philadelphia, D: Cleveland, E: Richmond, F: Atlanta, G: Chicago, H: St. Louis, I: Minneapolis, J: Kansas City, K: Dallas, L: San Francisco) |
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The Latin phrase Annuit Coeptis above the “all-seeing eye” on the dollar bill means “he has favored our undertaking.” The Latin phrase underneath the pyramid on the dollar bill, Novus Ordo Seclorum, means “a new order of the ages” and refers to the time after 1776 when America declared its independence. |
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All the gold discovered in the world would be a cube between 62 feet and 82 feet along each side, which would fit into a tennis court. Around 161,000 tons of gold have been mined by humans. |
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There is an estimated total of 10 billion tons of gold in the world's oceans. That is 25 tons of gold for every cubic mile of seawater. |
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The world’s first gold vending machine was unveiled in May 2010. Located in an ultra-luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi, the vending machine itself is covered in 24-carat gold. |
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The most expensive gold coin in the world is the 1933 Double Eagle, which was sold at Sotheby's in New York in 2002 for $7.59 million. |
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South Dakota and Nevada produce more gold than any other states. |
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While the Nobel Prize medals are genuinely made of pure gold, the Olympic gold medals aren't: they are made of silver and then plated with a thin layer of gold. https://i.postimg.cc/gkbbSY8H/yree.jpg |
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We all know gold is rare, but let’s put that in perspective. The whole world pours more steel in a single hour than it has poured gold in recorded human history. |
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The easiest place to find lots of gold is probably not what you’d think. One can get more gold from one ton of personal computers than from seventeen tons of gold ore. |
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Silver is exceptionally shiny! It is the most reflective element, which makes it useful in mirrors, telescopes, microscopes and solar cells. Polished silver reflects 95% of the visible light spectrum. However, silver is a poor reflector of ultraviolet light. |
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Silver is the best electric conductor of the elements. It is used as the standard by which other conductors are measured. On a scale of 0 to 100, silver ranks 100 in terms of electrical conductivity. Copper ranks 97 and gold ranks 76. |
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Silver is the best thermal conductor of any metal. The lines you see in the rear window of a car consist of silver, used to defrost ice in the winter. |
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The most common form of silver is sterling silver. This is actually only 92.5% pure silver, with the other 7.5% made up of other precious metals including copper. Britannia silver is an alloy of 95.8% silver and 4.2% copper, also used for jewelry and silverware. Mexican silver is 95% silver and 5% copper. Fine silver is at least 99.9% pure and commercially available, but too soft for general use. There are 6 other classes of Silver (10 total) |
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In the past mirrors were backed with silver because it was highly reflective. Nowadays aluminium is used instead as it is cheaper and doesn’t tarnish over time like silver does. |
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9000 metric tons of silver is used by the photographic industry each year; that’s almost half of the total silver mined annually. |
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A new Steve McQueen barn find surfaces: the '79 Pontiac Trans Am from "The Hunter" https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2018/1...om-the-hunter/ |
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The incredible story of America's lost 1939 Antarctic Snow Cruiser https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enth...cid=spartandhp Definitely worth a read. |
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The Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in Northern California received 189 inches of snow, or 15.75 feet of snow, Feb. 13-19, 1959. |
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In 1999, the people of Bethel, Maine built a 113' 7" tall snowman, Angus, King of the Mountain. Nearly a decade later in 2008, they built the world's tallest snowwoman, Olympia Snow Woman, who stood at 122' 1" and used 13 million pounds of snow. She didn't fully melt until July 30 of that year. |
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