Tag: Currency
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Money Museum director in Colorado Springs helps make sense of the penny’s demise
Abraham Lincoln was three years away from being elected president when the half-cent coin was discontinued as an official form of American currency. Now, his visage on the 1-cent coin is on track to join the lineage of obsolete coins throughout U.S. history. At one end of the basement floor of the Money Museum near…
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Denver Mint presses on despite potential penny pause
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A group of 30 tourists stood in the foyer of the Denver Mint on Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by the sparking marble sourced from Vermont when the building was built in 1904. An American eagle and flag stood above them on the flecked wall, engraved with gold and platinum — a monument to the importance the Denver…