tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83967894317933951922024-02-20T19:09:34.487-08:00DOLLAR'S GO BLOGBLOG ABOUT INFORMATION TRADE DOLLAR COINS AND OTHERFor Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comBlogger4296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-8497720717986882372012-07-01T13:40:00.001-07:002012-07-01T13:42:08.764-07:00Coin Production: Presidential one dollar Coins Plummet<div class="format_text entry-content" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.571em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="attachment_25470" class="wp-caption alignright" style="padding: 0.714em; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em 1.571em; border: 0.071em solid rgb(221, 221, 221); background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); text-align: center; font-style: italic; float: right; width: 310px; "><img src="http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Chester-A.-Arthur-Presidential-1-Coin-300x175.jpg" alt="Chester A. Arthur Presidential $1 Coin" title="Chester A. Arthur Presidential $1 Coin" width="300" height="175" class="size-medium wp-image-25470" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; " /><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The U.S. Mint released January coin production figures which reveal plunging Presidential $1 Coin levels</p></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">Circulating coin production totals from the United States Mint were sharply higher in January 2012 as compared to the previous month and from the same time period of a year ago — despite plummeting mintages of Presidential $1 coins and Native American $1 coins.<span id="more-25719" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "></span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">A scant 1.68 million Presidential $1 coins were minted last month compared to the 72.66 million in January 2011. Likewise, 840,000 Native American $1 coins were struck versus the 6.3 million from a year ago.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">The drastic reduction is the result of a policy change by the Obama administration which <span style="color:#0000b8;"><a href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_production.">stopped circulating production of dollar coins</a></span> and permits the U.S. Mint to strike them only in quantities needed to fulfill collector demand.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">As such, the amount of dollars produced this year is unclear and will be for some time until a baseline is determined based on how many $1 coin bags and rolls are ordered by collectors. Going forward, mintages should become somewhat predictable much like the Kennedy half dollars. The Kennedy’s have not been produced for circulation since 2001 but have been minted for hobbyists. Their coin production total hit 3.5 million in January. That was up 50,000 from their <span style="color:#0000b8;"><a href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_production.">entire 2012 output</a></span> and matches the amount manufactured in 2010.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">January’s circulating coin production total came to 802.50 million</strong>. That was up 85.9% from December — a generally always-weak production month, and 4.9% higher than the prior January. For reference, production figures on a monthly basis for the last last dozen months follows.</p><h3 align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 1.833em 0px 0.611em; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.286em; line-height: 1.222em; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2011-2012 January Coin Production Figures / Mintages</strong></h3><div align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><table width="98%" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><tr bgcolor="#006bb5" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Month</strong></td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Mintages</strong></td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Rank</strong></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">January 2012</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">802.50 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">5</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">December 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">431.78 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">13</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">November 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">715.96 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">7</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">October 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">690.66 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">8</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">September 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">811.42 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">3</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">August 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">604.54 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">10</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">July 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">821.98 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">June 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">903.06 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">1</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">May 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">807.41 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">4</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">April 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">640.17 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">9</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">March 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">485.50 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">12</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">February 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">523.14 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">11</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">January 2011</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">764.73 M</td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">6</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; "></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">The biggest gains for the month came on the back of heavier mintages of Lincoln cents and Roosevelt dimes. Jefferson nickels and quarters actually declined a bit from a year ago.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">Coins are produced for circulation from either the U.S. Mint facility in Denver or the one in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Mint was much busier with its output of 486.68 million coins than the Denver Mint and its 315.82 million. This is a reversal from last year at this time when Denver was more than twice as busy.</p><h3 align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 1.833em 0px 0.611em; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.286em; line-height: 1.222em; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">US Mint Circulating Coin Production in January 2012</strong></h3><div align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><table width="98%" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><tr bgcolor="#006bb5" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td width="175" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "></td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Denver</strong></td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Philadelphia</strong></td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Total</strong></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Lincoln Cents</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">162,400,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">306,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">468,400,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Jefferson Nickels</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">41,040,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">42,240,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">83,280,000</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Roosevelt Dimes</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">84,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">110,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">194,000,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2012 Quarters</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">25,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">25,800,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">50,800,000</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Kennedy Half Dollars</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">1,700,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">1,800,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">3,500,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Native American $1s</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">840,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">840,000</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Presidential Dollars</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">840,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">840,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">1,680,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#006bb5" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Total</strong></td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">315,820,000</strong></td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">486,680,000</strong></td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">802,500,000</strong></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; "> </p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">No "final" mintages have been declared for any of the 2012 Presidential $1 coins or the 2012 America the Beautiful Quarters. The current quarter total of 50.8 million is assumed to be a portion of El Yunque National Forest Quarters which were released into circulation on January 23. The Chaco Culture National Historical Park Quarter are expected to begin circulating on April 2, which means production of the El Yunque quarter could continue into March.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">Since there are no circulating coin requirements for the 2012 Presidential dollars, it is possible that the U.S. Mint could be producing all four at the same time. However, it is more likely that the latest Presidential $1 coin production total is only for Chester Arthur dollars. Until very recently, the Mint was expected to launch bags and rolls of the Arthur $1 coins on February 16. Their release has since been changed to a "To Be Determined" date. Still, it would seem most likely for dollar releases to occur at distinct intervals throughout 2012 and, likewise, each to have staggered production runs.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">The following table provides a look into the available year-to-date mintages for coins by specific design.</p><h3 align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 1.833em 0px 0.611em; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.286em; line-height: 1.222em; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">US Mint 2012 Coin Production / Mintages by Design</strong></h3><div align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><table width="98%" border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; "><tbody style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><tr bgcolor="#006bb5" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td width="159" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "> </td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Denver</strong></td><td align="center" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Philadelphia</strong></td><td align="center" bgcolor="#006BB5" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">2011 Total</strong></td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Lincoln Cents</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">162,400,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">306,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">468,400,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Jefferson Nickels</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">41,040,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">42,240,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">83,280,000</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Roosevelt Dimes</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">84,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">110,000,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">194,000,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">El Yunque Quarter</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Chaco Culture Quarter</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Acadia Quarter</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Hawai’i Quarter</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Denali Quarter</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Kennedy Half Dollars</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">1,700,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">1,800,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">3,500,000</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Native American $1</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">840,000</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">840,000</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Arthur Presidential $1</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Cleveland Presidential $1</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding$3A 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Harrison Presidential $1</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#efeff7" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Cleveland Presidential $1</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">0</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#006bb5" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">Total</strong></td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">289,980,000</strong></td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">460,040,000</strong></td><td align="right" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">750,020,000</strong></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; "></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.571em; ">Visit this site’s <a href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_production."><em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 184); ">US Coins Information</em><span style="color:#0000b8;"> </span></a>page for details on many of the coins listed above. Current coin production figures are based on data from the United States Mint page:<a href="http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_production."><em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><span style="color:#0000b8;">http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/?action=coin_production</span></em>.</a></p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-87957959887824184532012-07-01T13:38:00.001-07:002012-07-01T13:39:50.982-07:00Presidential dollar production<h2 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: large; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Future issues for collector sales only; none for circulation</span></h2><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: large; ">U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner Dec. 13 suspended production of Presidential dollars for circulation, but the U.S. Mint retains authority to strike circulation-quality Presidential and Native American dollars for numismatic sales.</span></p><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p><span style="font-size:130%;">“Consistent with the Presidential $1 Coin Act, those who would like to obtain future Presidential $1 Coins can purchase them directly from the U.S. Mint during specified periods,” according to a statement released Dec. 14 from the U.S. Mint by Mint spokesman Michael White. “Prices and shipping costs for future $1 Coins will be announced in the near future and will be set at a level that ensures that they do not result in a cost to taxpayers.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Presidential dollars have been available in roll and box options directly from the Mint for those customers unable to obtain them from banks at face value.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Dollar coins needed to satisfy circulation demand will come from the vaults of the Federal Reserve Banks and their contracted armored carriers where 1.4 billion Presidential dollars currently reside. Federal Reserve and Treasury officials state that the existing inventory of dollar coins is sufficient to satisfy circulation demand for the next 10 to 12 years without additional production of the coins.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Government studies forecast that Presidential dollar coin surpluses would climb to 2 billion coins by 2016, the last year of the program, if production continued unabated.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Since the Presidential dollar coin program was introduced in February 2007 with the George Washington dollar, nearly 2.4 billion Presidential dollars representing the first 20 presidential administrations have been struck in circulation quality for circulation and for numismatic product sales. The Mint has also produced the dollar coins in numismatic versions for Proof sets, Uncirculated Mint sets and special packaging options. Production of those numismatic products will continue.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Geithner’s action to suspend Presidential dollar coin production for circulation was announced Dec. 13 by Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal S. Wolin at a news conference to report on Treasury Department efforts under the Obama Administration’s Campaign to Cut Government Waste.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Wolin said it is estimated that suspending dollar coin production will save $50 million to $70 million annually.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Difficult to obtain</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Although the Federal Reserve’s inventory of Presidential dollars is well above what is needed for circulation purposes, some collectors across the country have found it difficult to obtain the coins at face value, especially if their local banks did not order them directly from the Federal Reserve. Native American dollars have been made available only through the Mint, either as a numismatic product or as part of the Direct Ship Program.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Both dollar series have been available for acquisition directly from the Mint.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Individual $25 face value rolls of 25 Presidential and Native American dollars were being offered as of Dec. 15 at $39.95 per roll, plus shipping, as part of the Mint’s regular product offerings.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Coins from both programs have also been available in larger quantities from the Mint through its Direct Ship Program, though the Mint recently raised the cost of the coins to consumers. Starting Nov. 15, the U.S. Mint imposed a $12.95 shipping and handling fee on $250 face value boxes of rolled Presidential dollars and Native American dollars. Prior to Nov. 15, the boxes were offered at face value, with the U.S. Mint absorbing the shipping costs, in order to get more dollar coins into circulation.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">From the 2007 George Washington dollar through the 2011 James Garfield coin, Federal Reserve member banks have been able to order the latest Presidential dollar during a time period starting at three weeks before the coin’s release until two weeks after its release. Until these provisions, banks had to order the coins in $1,000 face value boxes of rolled coins.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Ceremonies and savings</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Treasury Department spokesman Matthew Anderson said no decision has been made as to whether the official launch ceremonies associated with the release of each Presidential dollar into circulation will continue.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Anderson said the $50 million to $70 million in savings represents strictly production costs associated with the Presidential dollars. While the Mint profits on the production of each coin through seigniorage — the difference between the face value of the coin (the price at which the Mint sells the coins to the Federal Reserve) and the cost to produce it — those totals are negated by shipping and storage costs for the coins, according to Anderson.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The U.S. Mint’s latest cost to produce a manganese-brass clad Presidential dollar is 32 cents, according to White.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Native American dollars</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The Presidential Dollar Coin Act of 2005 mandates the production of Presidential dollars from 2007 to 2016. The Native American $1 Coin Act of 2008 requires that 20 percent of all dollar coin production be Native American dollars. Those mandates will be met at the new production levels, Anderson said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Anderson said suspending Presidential dollar coin production at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints affects 26 full-time or equivalent positions total. Anderson said no layoffs will result from the suspension of production, but the number of full-time positions or equivalents will be absorbed through attrition over time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Anderson said Treasury officials are also looking at potential cost savings associated with the production of Lincoln copper-plated zinc cents and Jefferson copper-nickel 5-cent coins, both of which cost at or more than face value to produce. ■</span></p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-8908246637632548962012-07-01T13:24:00.003-07:002012-07-01T13:35:51.104-07:00policy of presidential dollar production<h1 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 28px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; "><p class="firstParagraph" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; ">Tthe U.S. Mint will release the <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Chester Arthur</span></span> dollar — the latest in its series of presidential $1 coins. This one will be available only to collectors willing to pay at least $1.70</p><div class="inset" style="margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 245px; float: left; clear: left; "><div class="photo-block" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; "><div class="ppy-placeholder" style="margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; height: 268px; width: 245px; float: left; "><div class="ppy ppy1 ppy-active ppy-single-image" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; position: absolute; width: auto; height: auto; top: 0px; left: 0px; right: auto; "><ul class="ppy-imglist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 245px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: -1000em; left: -1000em; "><li style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding: 10px; list-style: none; border: 1px solid rgb(240, 240, 240); float: left; display: block; width: 240px; height: 270px; "><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="cursor: pointer;"><img src="http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2012/04/04/Production-of-presidential-dollars-reduced-K818MIJ4-x.jpg" width="245" height="184" border="0" alt="Presidential $1 coins are displayed in Chicago. The U.S. Mint will release the Chester Arthur dollar Thursday." style="border: 0px; display: block; " /></span></span><span class="ppy-extcaption" style="width: 240px; display: block; "><p class="credit" style="text-align: left;margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); clear: both; float: right; ">AP file photo</p><p style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; ">Presidential $1 coins are displayed in Chicago. The U.S. Mint will release the Chester Arthur dollar Thursday.</p></span></li></ul><div class="ppy-outer" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: black; "><div class="ppy-stagewrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><div class="ppy-stage" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: black; width: 245px; height: 184px; background-image: url(http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2012/04/04/Production-of-presidential-dollars-reduced-K818MIJ4-x.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat !important; "><div class="ppy-nav" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px 5px; width: 125px; height: 30px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; "><span style="color:#333333;"><span style="cursor: pointer; width: 30px; background-image: url(http://i.usatoday.net/_inside2011/_i/enlarge.png); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); opacity: 0.7; display: block; text-indent: -900em; height: 22px; float: left; padding: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Enlarge</span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="ppy-caption" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: visible; visibility: visible; height: 69px; "><div class="ppy-captionwrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: visible; "><span class="ppy-text"><p class="credit" style="text-align: left;margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); clear: both; float: right; ">AP file photo</p><p style="text-align: left;margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); clear: both; ">Presidential $1 coins are displayed in Chicago. The U.S. Mint will release the Chester Arthur dollar Thursday.</p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><more><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The Obama administration has suspended production of the coins for mass circulation after the government racked up a $1.4 billion surplus of dollar coins.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"Nobody wants these things, and if they don't want them, we shouldn't keep making them," <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Vice President Biden</span></span>said last December.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">A review of internal government documents and interviews with former Mint officials suggest that an oversupply of dollars was as much to blame as a lack of demand.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">•Over-ordering: During special "introductory periods" of new presidential coins, the Mint swallowed the shipping and handling costs for coins sent to banks, making it cheaper for banks to order them. A memo by U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios last year estimated that 75% of all orders for coins came during those introductory periods, artificially inflating orders for new coins, even as banks were sending unwanted old coins back to the Federal Reserve.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"The Mint doesn't just produce as many coins as it wants," said former Mint director Philip Diehl; it makes coins to fulfill orders from banks.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Reports from the Federal Reserve to Congress show the central bank knew of the impending backlog as early as 2010. They estimated that 40% of dollar coins were returned by banks, prompting the Fed to propose building a $650,000 storage vault in Dallas and spend $3 million on armored cars to take the coins there.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">•The ghost of <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Susan B. Anthony</span></span>: The unpopular coin, first minted from 1979 to 1981, never really caught on. Consumers thought they looked and felt too much like quarters, causing confusion.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The banking system has never officially taken them out of circulation, so banks ordering previously circulated coins ended up with a mix of Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea and presidential dollar coins.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">•Credit card miles: The Mint, in an effort to get the coins directly to people who would spend them, offered a "direct ship" program that offered the coins for face value and free shipping. The Mint abandoned the program after discovering that some customers were ordering the coins on their credit cards to earn free airline miles, only to turn around and deposit them in bulk at a bank.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The question of what went wrong with the dollar coin could play a key role in the congressional debate over a proposal to eliminate the dollar bill entirely and replace it with the dollar coin. The <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Government Accountability Office</span></span> says the move could save the government more than $5 billion over 30 years because coins last longer.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Interests backing the dollar bill — including paper and ink manufacturers, armored car companies and <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">George Washington</span></span> aficionados — have recently escalated their lobbying campaigns to fend off the coin.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Even coin advocates such as Diehl worry that the experience with the presidential dollar coins has strengthened opponents' position.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"These institutions have known for 30 years what had to be done, and they failed to act," said Diehl, who helped design the Sacagawea coin. "Instead, they just stepped back and said, 'The dollar coin's a failure.' "</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 64px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The Mint will continue producing presidential dollars for collectors. Three more coins are due out this year: The <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Benjamin Harrison</span></span> and two different coins for <span style="color:#00529b;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Grover Cleveland</span></span>, who is often counted as two presidents because his terms were non-consecutive.</p></more></div></h1>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-66359572594261830912012-06-28T09:33:00.000-07:002012-06-28T09:35:13.774-07:00dollar<span ><span style="font-size: 100%; width: 338px; height: 149px;"><img class="rg_hi uh_hi" id="rg_hi" alt="" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwf8ZizzIDQcu0zE0qTvXYf1gTdpCbDXB6aQ6kK8KtWEqjNe7V" width="338" height="149" width="338" height="149" style="width:338px;height:149px" /></span></span><div><span ><br /></span></div><div><img class="rg_hi uh_hi" id="rg_hi" alt="" width="240" height="210" width="240" height="210" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrXwwOgGJFK1pO_nGHp1svg46JMixI2cxwgslTHCSJe2eqMH5cpQ" style="width: 240px; height: 210px; " /></div><div><img class="rg_hi uh_hi" id="rg_hi" alt="" width="281" height="179" width="281" height="179" style="width:281px;height:179px" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQvCsL8gvT2sY0yUNkCtk07EebNuRkYtYxGgW4my93FVsPyqcyT" /></div><div><span ><br /></span><div><span ><b>dollar</b></span></div></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-24178435977882876122012-06-27T15:46:00.000-07:002012-06-27T15:47:21.782-07:00Dollar coin (United States)<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span dir="auto">Dollar coin (United States)</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" style="font-size: 0.8em; position: relative; width: 783px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div id="siteSub" style="display: inline; ">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); width: auto; "></div><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; margin-top: -1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#mw-head" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#p-search" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; "><table class="infobox" cellspacing="5" style="font-size: 11px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: black; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; width: 22em; "><caption class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap; ">Dollar</caption><tbody><tr class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; "><b>United States</b></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Value</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">1.00 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">U.S. dollar</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Mass</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">8.100 g (0.260 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight" title="Troy weight" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">troy oz</a>)</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Diameter</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">26.5 mm (1.043 in)</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Thickness</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">2.00 mm (0.079 in)</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Edge</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">Plain with incised inscriptions</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Composition</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">Copper with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass" title="Brass" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">manganese brass</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladding_(metalworking)" title="Cladding (metalworking)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">clad</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" title="Copper" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">copper</a> 88.5%,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">zinc</a> 6%, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese" title="Manganese" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">manganese</a>3.5%, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" title="Nickel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">nickel</a> 2%)</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Years of minting</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">1796 – present</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Catalog number</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">—</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; ">Obverse</th></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2012_Pres_$1_Cleveland1_unc.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="2012 Pres $1 Cleveland1 unc.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/2012_Pres_%241_Cleveland1_unc.jpg/220px-2012_Pres_%241_Cleveland1_unc.jpg" width="220" height="220" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">Portraits of presidents, with a new coin released every three months</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Designer</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">many</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design date</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">2012</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; ">Reverse</th></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LineartPresRev.png" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="LineartPresRev.png" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/LineartPresRev.png/220px-LineartPresRev.png" width="220" height="221" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty" title="Statue of Liberty" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Statue of Liberty</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Designer</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Everhart" title="Don Everhart" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Don Everhart</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design date</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">2007</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; "><b>Dollar coins</b> have been minted in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" title="Gold" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">gold</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" title="Silver" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">silver</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_metal" title="Base metal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">base metal</a>versions. The term <b>silver dollar</b> is often used for any large <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_metal" title="White metal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">white metal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin" title="Coin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">coin</a> issued by the United States with a face value of one <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">dollar</a>, although purists insist that a dollar is not<i>silver</i> unless it contains some of that metal. Silver dollars, the first dollar coin issue, were<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)" title="Mint (coin)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">minted</a> beginning in 1794. Gold and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(color)" title="Gold (color)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">gold-colored</a> dollars have also been produced by the United States. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar" title="Sacagawea dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Sacagawea</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_$1_Coin_Program" title="Presidential $1 Coin Program" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Presidential dollars</a> are referred to as "golden dollars".</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Dollar coins have not been very popular in the United States, and most of the populace still currently use the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-dollar_bill" title="United States one-dollar bill" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">one dollar bill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup></p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px; "><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center; "><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline; ">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; "> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; text-align: left; "><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Popularity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Popularity</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Mint_Marks" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Mint Marks</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; "><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Early_dollar_coins" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Early dollar coins</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#The_1804_dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">The 1804 dollar</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Seated_Liberty_dollar_.281836.E2.80.931873.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Seated Liberty dollar (1836–1873)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Gold_dollar_coins_.281849.E2.80.931889.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Gold dollar coins (1849–1889)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Trade_Dollar_.281873.E2.80.931885.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.5</span> <span class="toctext">Trade Dollar (1873–1885)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Morgan_dollar_.281878.E2.80.931904.3B_1921.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.6</span> <span class="toctext">Morgan dollar (1878–1904; 1921)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Peace_dollar_.281921.E2.80.931935.3B_1964.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.7</span> <span class="toctext">Peace dollar (1921–1935; 1964)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Release_of_dollars_by_the_US_Treasury:_the_GSA_sale" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.8</span> <span class="toctext">Release of dollars by the US Treasury: the GSA sale</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Eisenhower_dollar_.281971.E2.80.931978.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.9</span> <span class="toctext">Eisenhower dollar (1971–1978)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Susan_B._Anthony_dollar_.281979.E2.80.931981.3B_1999.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.10</span> <span class="toctext">Susan B. Anthony dollar (1979–1981; 1999)</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Sacagawea_dollar_.282000.E2.80.93present.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.11</span> <span class="toctext">Sacagawea dollar (2000–present)</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; "><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Native_American_series" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.11.1</span> <span class="toctext">Native American series</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Presidential_Dollar_Coin_.282007.E2.80.93present.29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3.12</span> <span class="toctext">Presidential Dollar Coin (2007–present)</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Designs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Designs</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; "><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#Further_reading" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">6.1</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Popularity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Popularity">Popularity</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The gold dollar (1849-89) was a tiny coin measuring only 13 mm making it difficult to grasp and easy to lose, a serious problem when a dollar was almost a day's wage.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Dollar coins have found little popular acceptance in circulation in the United States since the early 20th century, despite several attempts since 1971 to increase usage of dollar coins. This contrasts with currencies of most other <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country" title="Developed country" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">developed countries</a>, where denominations of similar value exist only in coin. These coins have largely succeeded because of a removal (or lack) of their corresponding paper issues<sup id="cite_ref-GAOReport_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-GAOReport-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[2]</a></sup>, whereas the United States government has taken no action to remove the one-dollar bill, due to intensive lobbying.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has stated that discontinuing the dollar bill in favor of the dollar coin would save the U.S. government approximately $5.5 billion over thirty years primarily through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage" title="Seigniorage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">seigniorage</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GAOReport_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-GAOReport-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[3]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mint Marks" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Mint_Marks">Mint Marks</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The mint marks are "C", "CC", "D", "D", "O", "P", "S", and "W".</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABpJREFUeF5VxaEBAAAAgjBO9nyjGoUwPuFdCRqSA8lTAUBSAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); "><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"C": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mint" title="Charlotte Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> (gold coins only; 1838–1861).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"CC": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_City_Mint" title="Carson City Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Carson City, Nevada</a> (1870–1893).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"D": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlonega_Mint" title="Dahlonega Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Dahlonega, Georgia</a> (gold coins only; 1838–1861).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"D": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Mint" title="Denver Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Denver, Colorado</a> (1906 to date).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"O": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_Mint" title="New Orleans Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">New Orleans, Louisiana</a> (1838–1861; 1879–1909).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"P": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Mint" title="Philadelphia Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> (1793 to date).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"S": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Mint" title="San Francisco Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">San Francisco, California</a> (1854 to date).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; ">"W": <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Mint" title="West Point Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">West Point, New York</a> (1984 to date).</li></ul><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early dollar coins" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_dollar_coins">Early dollar coins</span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Before the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">American Revolutionary War</a>, coins from many European nations circulated freely in the American colonies, as did coinage issued by the various colonies. Chief among these was the Spanish silver dollar coins (also called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">pieces of eight or eight reales</a>) minted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mexico</a> and other colonies with silver mined from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Central</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American" title="South American" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">South American</a> mines. These coins, along with others of similar size and value, were in use throughout the colonies, and later the United States, and were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender" title="Legal tender" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">legal tender</a> until 1857.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In 1776, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress" title="Continental Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Continental Congress</a> authorized plans to produce a silver coin to prop up the rapidly failing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_(currency)" title="Continental (currency)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Continental</a>—the first attempt by the fledgling US at paper currency. Several examples were struck in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass" title="Brass" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">brass</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewter" title="Pewter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">pewter</a>, and silver, but a circulating coin was not produced, due in large part to the financial difficulties of running the Revolutionary War. The Continental Dollar bears a date of 1776, and while its true denomination is not known, it is generally the size of later dollars, and the name has stuck. The failure of the Continental exacerbated a distrust of paper money among both politicians and the populace at large. The letters of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Thomas Jefferson</a> indicate that he wished the United States to eschew paper money and instead mint coins of similar perceived value and worth to those foreign coins circulating at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792" title="Coinage Act of 1792" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Coinage Act of 1792</a> authorized the production of dollar coins from silver. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint" title="United States Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States Mint</a> produced silver dollar coins from 1794 to 1803, then ceased regular production of silver dollars until 1836. The first silver dollars, precisely 1,758 of them, were coined on October 15, 1794 and were immediately delivered to Mint Director <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rittenhouse" title="David Rittenhouse" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">David Rittenhouse</a> for distribution to dignitaries as souvenirs.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[5]</a></sup>Thereafter, until 1804, they were struck in varying quantities. There are two obverse designs: Flowing Hair (1794–1795) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draped_Bust_dollar" title="Draped Bust dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Draped Bust</a>(1795–1804). There are also two reverse designs used for the Draped Bust variety: small eagle (1795–1798) and heraldic eagle (1798–1804). Original silver dollars from this period are highly prized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numismatics" title="Numismatics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">coin collectors</a> and are exceptionally valuable, and range from fairly common to incredibly rare. Due to the early practice of hand engraving each <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_(manufacturing)" title="Die (manufacturing)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">die</a>, there are dozens of varieties known for all dates between 1795–1803.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">It is also one of only two denominations (the other being the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_(United_States_coin)" title="Penny (United States coin)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">cent</a>) minted in every year from its inception during the first decade of mint operation. However, the order was given by President Thomas Jefferson to halt silver dollar production due to the continued exportation of US dollars. The Spanish 8 Reale, which was slightly heavier than the US dollar, nonetheless traded at a 1-to-1 ratio. So US dollars went to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Caribbean</a>, were traded for heavier 8 Reales, and those were then brought back to the US, where they would be recoined for free into more US dollars; the difference in silver, then, was kept by the exporter. This ensured that no dollars would circulate in the US, but would instead be exported for their heavier counterparts overseas, leaving little but old, foreign money to circulate in the United States in a process known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_Law" title="Gresham's Law" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Gresham's Law</a>.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The 1804 dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="The_1804_dollar">The 1804 dollar</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_silver_dollar" title="1804 silver dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">1804 silver dollar</a></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_silver_dollar" title="1804 silver dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">1804 silver dollar</a> is one of the rarest and most famous and popular coins in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[6]</a></sup> Its creation was the result of a simple bookkeeping error, but its status as the king of coins has been established for nearly a century and a half. The silver dollars reported by the mint as being struck in 1804 were actually dated 1803 (die steel being very expensive in the early 19th century, dies were used until they were no longer in working condition. This is why many early US coins exhibit all kinds of die cracks, occlusions, cuds, clash marks, and other late state die wear. Dies were used until they literally fell apart. Nearly every coin the US struck from 1793 to 1825 has an example that was struck in a year other than that which it bears.) No dollars bearing the date 1804 were ever struck in 1804, though this was unknown to mint officials at the time the 1804 dollar came to be.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The 1804 silver dollar was actually produced in 1834, when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State" title="United States Department of State" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">U.S. Department of State</a> decided to produce a set of U.S. coins to be used as gifts to rulers in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Asia</a> in exchange for trade advantages. Since 1804 was the last recorded year of mintage for both the dollar and $10 Eagle, it was decided that the set would contain examples of those coins dated 1804, as well as the other denominations currently being produced. Mint officials, not realizing that the 19,000+ dollars recorded as being produced in 1804 were all dated 1803, proceeded to make new dies dated 1804. Little did they know the stunning rarity they were creating. Only 15 silver dollars with the date of 1804 are known to exist; in 1999, one of them sold at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction" title="Auction" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">auction</a> for more than $4 million. There are 8 Class I dollars, struck in 1834 for the aforementioned sets, 1 Class II dollar, struck over an 1857 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler" title="Thaler" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Swiss Shooting Thaler</a> (and now residing in the US Coin Collection at the Smithsonian Institution), and 6 Class III dollars, struck surreptitiously sometime between 1858 and 1860 to meet collector demand for the coin.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Seated Liberty dollar (1836–1873)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Seated_Liberty_dollar_.281836.E2.80.931873.29">Seated Liberty dollar (1836–1873)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Liberty_dollar" title="Seated Liberty dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Seated Liberty dollar</a></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Seated Liberty Dollars were introduced in 1840 and were minted in larger quantities than the sparsely minted Gobrecht Dollar that preceded it. The dollars were used in general circulation until 1853. The production of large numbers of US gold coins (First $1 1849 and $20 in 1850) from the new California mines lowered the price of gold..so the value of silver rose. By 1853, the value of a US Silver Dollar contained in gold terms, $1.07 of silver. With the Mint Act of 1853, all US Silver coins, except for the US Silver Dollar and new 3 cent coin, were reduced by 6.9% as of weight with arrows on the date to denote reduction. The US Silver Dollar was continued to be minted in very small numbers mainly as a foreign trade to the Orient.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The international trading partners did not like the fact that U.S.A. coins were reduced in weight. The use of much more common half dollars became problematic since merchants would have to separate higher value pre-1853 coins from the newer reduced ones. From 1853 onwards, trade with Asia was typically done with Mexican coins that kept their weight and purity in the 19th Century. This ended in 1874 when the price of silver dropped so that a silver dollar has less than $1.00 worth of silver in it (huge amounts of silver coming from the Nevada Comstock Lode mines). By 1876, all silver coins were being used as money and by 1878, gold was at par with all US paper dollars. Beginning in 1878, huge amounts of the Morgan silver dollars were produced but few were used as money. The size was too large to carry on business so silver certificates were used instead. The mint made the coins, placed them in their vaults and issued the Silver Certificates instead. This is the reason so many Morgan and Peace dollars can be purchased in AU or UNC condition (near perfect)... they sat in bank/US Treasury vaults most of the time.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Each coin is composed of 0.77344 troy oz of silver. They were minted at Philadelphia, New Orleans, Carson City, and San Francisco. A Silver dollar is worth $1 in silver at $1.31 per troy ounce. Current silver price (October 21, 2010) is $23.12 per troy ounce so a silver dollar is worth, melted down (melt value) of about $17.88 US.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gold dollar coins (1849–1889)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Gold_dollar_coins_.281849.E2.80.931889.29">Gold dollar coins (1849–1889)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_dollar" title="Gold dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Gold dollar</a></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The gold dollar was produced from 1849 to 1889. 1849 to 1853 gold dollar coins were 13 mm across and are called Type I. Type II gold dollars were thinner but larger at 15 mm diameter and were produced from 1854 to 1855. The most common gold dollar are the Type III and started in 1856 until 1889. Production US $1 gold dollars was high until the Civil War and by 1863, only the larger value gold coins were produced large quantities. Most gold coins produced from 1863 and onward were produced for imports to pay for enormous amounts of war material and interest on some US Government bonds. Many of these coins from the Civil War and after (silver coins included) are in excellent condition since they saw very limited circulation with greenbacks and postage currency taking their place.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Composed of 90% pure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" title="Gold" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">gold</a>, it was the smallest denomination of gold currency ever produced by the United States federal government. When the US system of coinage was originally designed there had been no plans for a gold dollar coin, but in the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1840" title="1840" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">1840s</a>, two <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_rush" title="Gold rush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">gold rushes</a> later, Congress was looking to expand the use of gold in the country’s currency.<sup id="cite_ref-coinfactsLH_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-coinfactsLH-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-coincommunityLH_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-coincommunityLH-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[8]</a></sup> The gold dollar was authorized by the Act of March 3, 1849, and the Liberty Head type began circulating soon afterward.<sup id="cite_ref-redbook_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-redbook-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> Because of the high value of gold, the gold dollar is the smallest coin in the history of US coinage.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Trade Dollar (1873–1885)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Trade_Dollar_.281873.E2.80.931885.29">Trade Dollar (1873–1885)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Dollar_(United_States_coin)" title="Trade Dollar (United States coin)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Trade Dollar (United States coin)</a></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The Trade Dollar was produced in response to other Western powers, such as Great Britain, Spain, France, and particularly Mexico, to compete with these trade coins for use in trade in Asia. American Trade Dollars are 90% silver and weigh 420 grains (27.2 g), which is about 0.5 g heavier than the regular circulation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Liberty_Dollar" title="Seated Liberty Dollar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Seated Liberty Dollars</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Dollar" title="Morgan Dollar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Morgan Dollars</a>. Most Trade Dollars ended up in Asia during their first two years of production, where they were very successful. Many of them exhibit chopmarks which are counterstamps from Asian merchants to verify the authenticity of the coins. Many trade coins of the western powers and large silver coins from China, Korea, and Japan also bear these chopmarks. While most chopmarked coins are generally worth less than those without, some of the more fascinating chopmarks can actually give the coin a modest premium.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Trade Dollars did not circulate in the United States initially, but were legal tender for up to $5. Things changed, however, in 1876, when the price of silver spiraled downward as western producers dumped silver on the market, making the Trade Dollar worth more at face value than its silver content. That resulted in Trade Dollars pouring back into the United States, as they were bought for as little as the equivalent of 80 US cents in Asia, and were then spent at $1 in the United States. This prompted Congress to revoke their legal tender status, and restrict their coinage to exportation demand only. However, this didn't stop unscrupulous persons from buying Trade Dollars at bullion value, and using them for payment as $1 to unsuspecting workers and merchants.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Production of the Trade Dollar was officially halted for business strikes in 1878, and thereafter from 1879–1885, produced only as proof examples of the coin. The issues of 1884 and 1885 were produced surreptitiously, and were unknown to the collecting public until 1908.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In February 1887, all non-mutilated outstanding Trade Dollars were made redeemable to the United States Treasury, and approximately 8 million of them were turned in.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Morgan dollar (1878–1904; 1921)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Morgan_dollar_.281878.E2.80.931904.3B_1921.29">Morgan dollar (1878–1904; 1921)</span></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 152px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan_silver_dollar.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Morgan_silver_dollar.jpg/150px-Morgan_silver_dollar.jpg" width="150" height="144" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan_silver_dollar.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf5/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The Morgan silver dollar</div></div></div><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Dollar" title="Morgan Dollar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Morgan Dollar</a></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; "><i>Morgan</i> silver dollars were minted between 1878 and 1921, with a notable break between 1905 and 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[10]</a></sup> The 1921-dated coins are the most common, and there exists a substantial collector market for pristine, uncirculated specimens of the rarer dates and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_mark" title="Mint mark" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">mint marks</a>. Morgan dollars are second only to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Cent" title="Lincoln Cent" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Lincoln Cents</a> in collector popularity. The coin is named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_T._Morgan" title="George T. Morgan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">George T. Morgan</a>, its designer. The mint mark is found on the reverse below the wreath, above the 'O' in 'DOLLAR'.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Peace dollar (1921–1935; 1964)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Peace_dollar_.281921.E2.80.931935.3B_1964.29">Peace dollar (1921–1935; 1964)</span></h3><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 152px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peace_dollar.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Peace_dollar.jpg/150px-Peace_dollar.jpg" width="150" height="148" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peace_dollar.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf5/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The Peace silver dollar</div></div></div><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Dollar" title="Peace Dollar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Peace Dollar</a></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Introduced in December 1921, the Peace dollar, designed by medalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_de_Francisci" title="Anthony de Francisci" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Anthony de Francisci</a>, was promulgated to commemorate the signing of formal <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_treaty" title="Peace treaty" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">peace treaties</a> between the Allied forces and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Germany</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" title="Austria" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Austria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[11]</a></sup> These treaties officially ended the Allies' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">World War I</a> hostilities with these two countries. In 1922 the Mint made silver dollar production its top priority, causing other denominations to be produced sparingly if at all that year. Production ceased temporarily after 1928; original plans apparently called for only a one year suspension, but this was extended by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Great Depression</a>. Mintage resumed in 1934, but for only two years.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In May 1965, 316,000+ Peace Dollars were minted, all at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Mint" title="Denver Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Denver Mint</a> and dated 1964-D; however, plans for completing this coinage were abandoned, and most of those already minted were melted, with two known trial strike specimens being preserved (for assay purposes) until 1970, when they too were melted, and none released either for circulation or collection purposes. It is rumored that one or more pieces still exist, most notably any examples obtained by key members of Congress, the President, or mint officials. However, this coin, much like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Double_Eagle" title="1933 Double Eagle" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">1933 $20 gold Double Eagle</a> (aside from the "exception", sold in 2002 for over $7 million), is illegal to own and would be subject to confiscation.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[12]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Release of dollars by the US Treasury: the GSA sale" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Release_of_dollars_by_the_US_Treasury:_the_GSA_sale">Release of dollars by the US Treasury: the GSA sale</span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Because of the size and weight of the dollar coins, they circulated minimally throughout their history, except in the West (especially at casinos in the early-to-mid-20th century, where they were commonly used both at the tables and at slot machines.) As a result, the coins were generally shipped to Washington and stored in the vaults of the US Treasury; at times these stores numbered into the hundreds of millions.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from March 2012">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">They were very popular as Christmas gifts, however, and from the 1930s to the early 1960s, many bags were annually released to banks nationwide to be distributed as presents. In November 1962, during this annual distribution, it was discovered that there were some rare and valuable dates, still sealed in their original mint bags, all in uncirculated condition, among the millions of dollar coins still in the Treasury vaults. Collectors/investors/dealers lined up to purchase them in $1,000 bags, trading silver certificates for the coins. Before this event, the great rarity of the Morgan series was 1903-O, which was by far the most expensive of the entire set. It was discovered that there were millions of this specific date and mint in the Treasury vaults; an estimated 84% of the entire mintage sat in these bags, untouched for 60 years, all in uncirculated condition. While still relatively expensive in circulated grades, uncirculated examples can be had for a modest amount over common dates.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from March 2012">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">On March 25, 1964, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon announced that Silver Certificates would no longer be redeemable for silver dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[13]</a></sup> Subsequently, another act of Congress dated June 24, 1967, provided that Silver Certificates could be exchanged for silver bullion for a period of one year, until June 24, 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[14]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Following this, the Treasury inventoried its remaining stock of dollar coins, and found approximately 3,000 bags containing 3 million coins. Many of the remaining coins were Carson City mint dollars, which even then carried a premium. The coins were placed in special hard plastic holders and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Services_Administration" title="General Services Administration" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">General Services Administration</a> (GSA) was given authorization to sell them to the public in a series of mail-bid sales. Five sales were conducted in 1973 and 1974, but sales were poor, and the results unspectacular. There was much complaining among the coin buying public, many stating that the United States Government should not be in the "coin business", especially considering that the government had spent little more than a dollar to mint and store each coin. After these sales, more than a million coins were still left unsold.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">These sat again until 1979-1980, where, amidst an extraordinarily volatile precious metals market, the remaining coins were sold under chaotic conditions. The GSA, having published minimum bids in November 1979, announced on January 2, 1980, that those minimum bids were no longer valid, and that prospective bidders would have to "call in" to a toll free number to get current minimum bids. Then, on February 21, 13 days after the bidding process officially began, the maximum number of coins per bidder was changed from 500 to 35. Many bidders, under these confusing conditions, ended up with no coins at all. Complaints again flooded in to Congress, but the damage had already been done, and the last silver dollars held by the United States Treasury were gone.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[17]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Over the years, many of these GSA dollars have been broken out of their special holders for purposes of grading or otherwise, and now GSA dollars still in the unbroken original holders carry a small premium. Some third party grading companies have begun to grade coins still in their GSA holders, as a means of preservation, though this is not without controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[18]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Eisenhower dollar (1971–1978)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Eisenhower_dollar_.281971.E2.80.931978.29">Eisenhower dollar (1971–1978)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Dollar" title="Eisenhower Dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Eisenhower Dollar</a></div><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 152px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenhower_Dollar.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Eisenhower_Dollar.jpg/150px-Eisenhower_Dollar.jpg" width="150" height="150" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenhower_Dollar.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf5/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Eisenhower</a> 1972 clad dollar (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse" title="Obverse" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">obverse</a>).</div></div></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 152px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IkeBicentBack.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/IkeBicentBack.jpg/150px-IkeBicentBack.jpg" width="150" height="149" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IkeBicentBack.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf5/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>1975/1976 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bicentennial_coinage" title="United States bicentennial coinage" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bicentennial</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_coin" title="Commemorative coin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Commemorative coin</a>(reverse).</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">From 1971 to 1978, the U.S. Mint issued dollar coins with the obverse depicting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> and the reverse the insignia of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Apollo 11</a> moon landing, both designed by Chief Engraver <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gasparro" title="Frank Gasparro" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Frank Gasparro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[19]</a></sup>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial_Coinage" title="United States Bicentennial Coinage" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">1976 Bicentennial</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commemorative_coin" title="Commemorative coin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">commemorative</a> design, produced in 1975 and 1976, featured the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Bell" title="Liberty Bell" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Liberty Bell</a> and the Moon on the reverse (designed by Dennis R. Williams), while retaining the Eisenhower obverse, and the dual dates 1776-1976. The Eisenhower dollars minted for general circulation contained no silver or gold, but were instead composed of the same copper-nickel clad composition used for the dime, quarter, and half dollar. This made the circulation coins extremely resistant to wear and, like the smaller denominations, they still retain a good deal of shine even when subject to mass usage.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">From 1971 through 1976 the Mint also produced dollars composed of 40% silver aimed at the collector market. The 1971-74 issues appeared in brown boxes or blue packages, depending on whether they were proof or uncirculated. Somewhat different Bicentennial sets were produced in the following two years. All issues remain very common.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The coins were never very popular, primarily due to their large size and weight which made them inconvenient to carry and the fact that very few vending machines were designed to accept them. They saw the greatest use in casinos, and one-dollar tokens in United States casinos still approximate the size and weight of the coins. Prior to the withdrawal of the coins, which remain legal tender (and are sometimes available at banks by request<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from June 2009">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>), many casinos did not strike their own tokens, but instead used the Eisenhower dollar.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Susan B. Anthony dollar (1979–1981; 1999)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Susan_B._Anthony_dollar_.281979.E2.80.931981.3B_1999.29">Susan B. Anthony dollar (1979–1981; 1999)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar" title="Susan B. Anthony dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Susan B. Anthony dollar</a></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 302px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_us_dollar_1979.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/1_us_dollar_1979.jpg/300px-1_us_dollar_1979.jpg" width="300" height="153" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1_us_dollar_1979.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf5/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The Anthony clad dollar, 1979.</div></div></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 152px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_dollar_coin.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Anthony_dollar_coin.jpg/150px-Anthony_dollar_coin.jpg" width="150" height="150" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_dollar_coin.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf5/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The Anthony clad dollar, 1999.</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">From 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999, the Mint produced <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar" title="Susan B. Anthony dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Anthony Dollars</a>, depicting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony" title="Susan B. Anthony" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Susan B. Anthony</a>, the first non-fictitious woman portrayed on circulating U.S. coinage. (Many earlier circulating coins featured images of women, but the women depicted were all non-specific representations of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(goddess)" title="Liberty (goddess)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Liberty</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Spain</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" title="Isabella I of Castile" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Queen Isabella</a> was portrayed on the 1893 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Exposition_quarter_dollar" title="Columbian Exposition quarter dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Columbian Exposition quarter dollar</a>, but it was not intended as a circulating coin, although some did circulate.) The Anthony dollars, like the Eisenhower dollars, were made from a copper-nickel clad. The 1981 coins were issued for collectors only, but occasionally show up in circulation.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The Anthony dollar was often confused with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_(U.S._coin)" title="Quarter (U.S. coin)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">quarter</a> based on color and it being not much larger than one. This is one reason why the coin was never popular. It was quickly discontinued, but resurrected in 1999 when Treasury reserves were low, and the Sacagawea dollar was still a year away from production.<sup id="cite_ref-numismatist_19-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-numismatist-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[20]</a></sup> While reserves of the coins were initially high, the coins were in demand to be used as change in vending machines, most often in transit systems and post offices.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">This dollar is often referred to as a "Suzy" or "Susie"<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>; another variation is to refer to the coin as a "Susan B" or "Susie/Suzy B;" another common term is the "Carter quarter,"<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from September 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> referring to its emergence during the Presidential term of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Jimmy Carter</a> and the fact that it was often confused with the quarter-dollar coin.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Sacagawea dollar (2000–present)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Sacagawea_dollar_.282000.E2.80.93present.29">Sacagawea dollar (2000–present)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar" title="Sacagawea dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Sacagawea dollar</a></div><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 308px; "><table cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 304px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: middle; "><td class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sacagawea_dollar_obverse.png" class="image" title="Obverse (left) of the current Sacagawea Dollar and reverse (right) of the original Sacagawea Dollar, 2000-2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fe/Sacagawea_dollar_obverse.png/150px-Sacagawea_dollar_obverse.png" width="150" height="150" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; width: 2px; "></td><td class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_one_dollar_coin,_reverse.jpg" class="image" title="Obverse (left) of the current Sacagawea Dollar and reverse (right) of the original Sacagawea Dollar, 2000-2008" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/United_States_one_dollar_coin%2C_reverse.jpg/150px-United_States_one_dollar_coin%2C_reverse.jpg" width="150" height="147" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td colspan="3" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; "><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; text-align: left; ">Obverse (left) of the current Sacagawea Dollar and reverse (right) of the original Sacagawea Dollar, 2000-2008</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea" title="Sacagawea" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Sacagawea</a> dollar was authorized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Congress</a> in 1997 because the supply of Anthony dollars, in inventory since their last mintage in 1981, was soon expected to be depleted. Delays in ramping up Sacagawea dollar production led to a final 1999-dated mintage of Susan B. Anthony dollars. Dollar coins are used infrequently in general commerce. They used to be given as change by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States Postal Service</a> stamp vending machines, which created a relatively small but significant demand, but the USPS eliminated all those machines by 2010.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The obverse was designed by artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenna_Goodacre" title="Glenna Goodacre" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Glenna Goodacre</a>. Since no verifiable image of Sacagawea exists, Goodacre used <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%27L_He-dow_Teton" title="Randy'L He-dow Teton" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Randy'L He-dow Teton</a>, a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Mexico" title="University of New Mexico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">University of New Mexico</a> college student and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Shoshone</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_people_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous people of the Americas" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Indian</a>, as a model for the coin.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[21]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">There are approximately 1 billion Sacagawea coins in circulation, and about 250 million in reserve. The US Mint greatly reduced production of Sacagawea dollars after the 2001 minting, citing sufficient inventory. From 2002 to 2008 the Sacagawea dollar was still minted for collectors and was available in uncirculated rolls, mint sets, and proof sets, but it was not released for general circulation until the introduction of the Native American series in 2009.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The Mint took great care to create the coin with the same size, weight, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism" title="Electromagnetism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">electromagnetic</a> properties as the Anthony dollar, but with a golden color. Unlike most other coins in circulation, the selected alloy has a tendency to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnish" title="Tarnish" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">tarnish</a> quite severely in circulation, as is the case with most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass" title="Brass" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">brasses</a>, resulting in a loss of the golden shine, except on raised areas where the "patina" is more frequently rubbed off.<sup id="cite_ref-mintdollarfaq_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-mintdollarfaq-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[22]</a></sup> While some consider the blackening an undesired quality, the Mint suggests the uneven tarnishing effect gives the coins an "antique finish" that "accentuate[s] the profile and add[s] a dimension of depth to the depiction of Sacagawea and her child".<sup id="cite_ref-mintdollarfaq_21-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-mintdollarfaq-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[22]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The coin featured a plain edge through 2008, but starting in 2009 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_numismatics#I" title="Glossary of numismatics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">incused</a> lettering was applied. The year and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_mark" title="Mint mark" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">mint mark</a> moved from the coin's obverse (front) to its edge.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">As of 2011, dollar coins are not widely encountered in US commerce, except in vending machines for rides on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_transit" title="Mass transit" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">mass transit</a>, some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_and_display" title="Pay and display" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">pay and display</a> machines, some laundromats, and old-fashioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine" title="Slot machine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">slot machines</a>. Most vending machines and parking meters have been redesigned, however, to accept dollar coins for purchase over a quarter-dollar.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from October 2011">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The Sacagawea dollar has achieved popularity in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">El Salvador</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Ecuador</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" title="Panama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Panama</a>, where the US dollar is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollarization" title="Dollarization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">also the official currency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-numismatist_19-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-numismatist-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[20]</a></sup></p><h4 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 15px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Native American series" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Native_American_series">Native American series</span></h4><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 308px; "><table cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 304px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: middle; "><td class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2009NativeAmericanRev.jpg" class="image" title="The Sacagawea dollar reverse for 2009 (left) representing agriculture and the reverse for 2010 (right) representing government" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/2009NativeAmericanRev.jpg/150px-2009NativeAmericanRev.jpg" width="150" height="150" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; width: 2px; "></td><td class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2010NativeAmerican_Rev.jpg" class="image" title="The Sacagawea dollar reverse for 2009 (left) representing agriculture and the reverse for 2010 (right) representing government" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/2010NativeAmerican_Rev.jpg/150px-2010NativeAmerican_Rev.jpg" width="150" height="151" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td colspan="3" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; "><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; text-align: left; ">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea" title="Sacagawea" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Sacagawea</a> dollar reverse for 2009 (left) representing agriculture and the reverse for 2010 (right) representing government</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">With the passage of the Native American $1 Coin Act<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[23]</a></sup> on September 20, 2007, the U.S. Mint began designing a series of Sacagawea dollars with modified reverses to further commemorate "Native Americans and the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States". Four designs were to be minted, each for one year from 2009 to 2012. The first Native American series coin was released in January 2009 and had a reverse that depicted a Native American woman sowing seeds of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)" title="Three Sisters (agriculture)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Three Sisters</a>, symbolizing the Indian tribes' contributions to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture" title="Agriculture" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">agriculture</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Dollar" title="Presidential Dollar" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Presidential Dollar</a>, the year of issue, mint mark, and motto <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Pluribus_Unum" title="E Pluribus Unum" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">E Pluribus Unum</a></i> are found on the edge of the coin instead of on the obverse or reverse, which allows for more room for the design.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[24]</a></sup> Unlike the Presidential $1 coins from before 2009, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust" title="In God We Trust" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In God We Trust</a>" remains on the obverse and the vacant space on the edge lettering has been taken up by thirteen <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_(polygon)" title="Star (polygon)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">stars</a>, symbolizing the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Thirteen Colonies</a>. Also, unlike any other denomination of circulating U.S. coinage (but in common with the Presidential $1 coins), the value is inscribed in numerals on the reverse. The act passed by Congress requires that 20% of the total dollar coins minted in any year during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_$1_Coin_Program" title="Presidential $1 Coin Program" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Presidential $1 Coin Program</a> be Sacagawea dollars bearing the new design.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In January 2010, the second reverse design in the series was released which has the theme of "Government" and the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Peace" title="Tree of Peace" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Great Tree of Peace</a>". The 2010 Sacagawea reverse depicts the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiawatha_Belt" title="Hiawatha Belt" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Hiawatha Belt</a> and five arrows bound together representing unity with the inscription "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee" title="Haudenosaunee" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Haudenosaunee</a>", a synonym for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_Confederacy" title="Iroquois Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Iroquois Confederacy</a> meaning "People of the Longhouse". Another inscription is found along the lower edge of the reverse spelling "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace" title="Great Law of Peace" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Great Law of Peace</a>" (an English translation of Gayanashagowa, the Iroquois Confederacy<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution" title="Constitution" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">constitution</a>). The Great Law of Peace was used as a model for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States" title="Constitution of the United States" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Constitution of the United States</a>. The four links on the belt are meant to symbolize four of the five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, namely the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Nation" title="Mohawk Nation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mohawk</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Nation" title="Oneida Nation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Oneida</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayuga_Nation" title="Cayuga Nation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Cayuga</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Nation" title="Seneca Nation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Seneca</a> Nations. The<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_White_Pine" title="Eastern White Pine" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Eastern White Pine</a> tree in the middle of the belt represents the fifth Nation, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onondaga_people" title="Onondaga people" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Onondaga</a>, and is a depiction of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Peace" title="Tree of Peace" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Tree of Peace</a>.</p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_coin_(United_States)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Presidential Dollar Coin (2007–present)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Presidential_Dollar_Coin_.282007.E2.80.93present.29">Presidential Dollar Coin (2007–present)</span></h3><div class="rellink relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; ">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_$1_Coin_Program" title="Presidential $1 Coin Program" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Presidential $1 Coin Program</a></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 308px; "><table cellspacing="0" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 304px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: middle; "><td class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Washington_Presidential_$1_Coin_obverse.png" class="image" title="Obverse (left) and reverse (right) of the George Washington (#1) dollar coin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/George_Washington_Presidential_%241_Coin_obverse.png/150px-George_Washington_Presidential_%241_Coin_obverse.png" width="150" height="150" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td><td style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; width: 2px; "></td><td class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LineartPresRev.png" class="image" title="Obverse (left) and reverse (right) of the George Washington (#1) dollar coin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/LineartPresRev.png/150px-LineartPresRev.png" width="150" height="151" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td colspan="3" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; "><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; text-align: left; ">Obverse (left) and reverse (right) of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">George Washington</a>(#1) dollar coin</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In December 2005, Congress decided to create a new series of $1 coins which will honor the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of Presidents of the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">former U.S. presidents</a>. In 2007, Presidential coins of four different designs were produced. Another four designs will be produced each year, honoring the Presidents in order of service. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Grover Cleveland</a> will be on two coins, since he served two non-consecutive terms.) The Presidential $1 Coin Act is intended to create renewed interest in the coin like that seen during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_State_Quarters" title="50 State Quarters" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">50 State Quarters</a> program.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[25]</a></sup> At least one third of all dollar coins produced are still Sacagawea coins, with the remaining coins making up the four presidential coins annually. Under federal law (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_31_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 31 of the United States Code" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">31 U.S.C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/5112.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">§ 5112</a>), no coins may be issued featuring a living president, or a president who died less than two years earlier. The program was scheduled to run until 2016, but was canceled to save money.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The presidential dollar coin is the same size and composition as the Sacagawea dollar. "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust" title="In God We Trust" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In God We Trust</a>", the issue year, and the mint mark appear on the edge.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[26]</a></sup> The fact that these national mottoes appear on the edge has caused some conservative commentators to decry the designs.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[28]</a></sup> The first dollar, honoring George Washington, was released into circulation on February 15, 2007. However,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.110hr2764" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">H.R. 2764</a> became law on December 26, 2007 which moved "In God We Trust" from the edge to the obverse.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">A common minting error on this coin, estimated at 80,000, from a mintage of 300,000,000 coins, is the omission of the edge lettering causing a plain outside edge.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[29]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_edge_flaw_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-NYT_edge_flaw-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[30]</a></sup> Because the omission includes the words "In God We Trust", some in the popular media have dubbed it the "godless" coin.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[31]</a></sup> A false (although at one time widely reported) error is the report that the edge lettering is upside down. The edge lettering does not occur at the same time as the minting of the coins, allowing for the natural occurrence of the lettering in either orientation,<sup class="Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; ">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from November 2010">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> except Proof Coins where the date and lettering are all "right-side-up."</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Because of budget constraints and increasing stockpiles of the relatively unpopular coins, the production of new Sacagawea and presidential dollar coins for circulation was suspended on December 13, 2011. Future minting of such coins will be made solely for collectors.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[32]</a></sup></p></div></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-77287800151989692962012-06-27T15:44:00.000-07:002012-06-27T15:45:58.840-07:00Trade dollar (United States coin)<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 1.6em; line-height: 1.2em; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span dir="auto">Trade dollar (United States coin)</span></h1><div id="bodyContent" style="font-size: 0.8em; position: relative; width: 783px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div id="siteSub" style="display: inline; ">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div><div id="contentSub" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em 1em; color: rgb(125, 125, 125); width: auto; "></div><div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; zoom: 1; margin-top: -1.4em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#mw-head" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#p-search" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></a></div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; "><table class="infobox" cellspacing="5" style="font-size: 11px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: black; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; width: 22em; "><caption class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap; ">Trade dollar</caption><tbody><tr class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; "><b>United States</b></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Mass</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">27.2 g (420 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(unit)" title="Grain (unit)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">gr</a>)</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Diameter</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">38.1 mm (1.5 in)</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Edge</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeding" title="Reeding" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Reeded</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Composition</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">90% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" title="Silver" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">silver</a><br />10% <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" title="Copper" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">copper</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Years of minting</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">1873–1885</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; ">Obverse</th></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1883_trade_dollar_obverse.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="1883 trade dollar obverse.jpg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/1883_trade_dollar_obverse.jpg/220px-1883_trade_dollar_obverse.jpg" width="220" height="217" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">Left-facing seated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(goddess)" title="Liberty (goddess)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Liberty</a>, who extends her hand, bearing an olive branch, over the sea.</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Designer</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barber_(engraver)" title="William Barber (engraver)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">William Barber</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design date</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">1873</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; ">Reverse</th></tr><tr class=""><td colspan="2" class="" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TradeDollarReverse.JPG" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="TradeDollarReverse.JPG" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/TradeDollarReverse.JPG" width="212" height="216" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle; " /></a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bald eagle</a></td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Designer</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">William Barber</td></tr><tr class=""><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; ">Design date</th><td class="" style="vertical-align: top; ">1873</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The <b>trade dollar</b> was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)" title="Dollar coin (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States dollar coin</a> minted to compete with other large silver coins that were already popular in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">East Asia</a>. The idea first came about in the 1860s, when the price of silver began to decline due to increased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_mining_in_the_United_States" title="Silver mining in the United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">mining efforts</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States" title="Western United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">western United States</a>. A bill providing in part for the issuance of the trade dollar was eventually put before<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Congress</a>, where it was approved and later signed into law as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1873" title="Coinage Act of 1873" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Coinage Act of 1873</a>. The act made trade dollars <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender" title="Legal tender" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">legal tender</a> up to five dollars. A number of designs were considered for the trade dollar, and an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse_and_reverse" title="Obverse and reverse" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">obverse and reverse</a> created by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barber_(engraver)" title="William Barber (engraver)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">William Barber</a> were selected.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The coins were first struck in 1873, and most of the production was sent to China. Eventually, bullion producers began converting large amounts of silver into trade dollars, causing the coins to make their way into American commercial channels. This caused frustration among those to whom they were given in payment, as the coins were largely maligned and traded for less than one dollar each. In response to their wide distribution in American commerce, the coins were officially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonetisation#Demonetisation" title="Demonetisation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">demonetized</a> in 1876, but continued to circulate. Production of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_strike" title="Business strike" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">business strikes</a> ended in 1878, though the mintage of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_coin" title="Proof coin" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">proof coins</a>continued until 1883. The trade dollar was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetization" title="Monetization" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">re-monetized</a> when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1965" title="Coinage Act of 1965" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Coinage Act of 1965</a> was signed into law.</p><table id="toc" class="toc" style="font-size: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 5px; "><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center; "><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline; ">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; "> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; text-align: left; "><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#Background" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Background</span></a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; "><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#Design_selection" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Design selection</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#Production" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Production</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#Reception" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Reception</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#Further_reading" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Background">Background</span></h2><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 202px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Jay_Knox_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/John_Jay_Knox_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/200px-John_Jay_Knox_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" width="200" height="248" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Jay_Knox_-_Brady-Handy.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf4/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>John Jay Knox popularized the idea of a dollar coin to compete with the Mexican dollar for use in East Asia.</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Following the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_rush" title="California gold rush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">California gold rush</a> that began in 1849 and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_gold_rush" title="Australian gold rush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Australian gold rush</a> that began in 1851, a larger amount of gold was put into commerce than could be easily absorbed by the normal channels.<sup id="cite_ref-goldrush_0-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-goldrush-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup> This resulted in a decrease in the value of gold and an increase in the relative value of silver.<sup id="cite_ref-goldrush_0-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-goldrush-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup> As a result, silver coins rapidly disappeared from circulation due either to hoarding or melting.<sup id="cite_ref-goldrush_0-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-goldrush-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup> In response, Congress authorized the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint" title="United States Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mint</a> to reduce the quantity of silver in all denominations except the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-cent_piece_(United_States_coin)" title="Three-cent piece (United States coin)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">three-cent piece</a> and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_coin_(United_States)" title="Dollar coin (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">silver dollar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-goldrush_0-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-goldrush-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[1]</a></sup> Beginning in the 1860s, silver production rose and the price decreased.<sup id="cite_ref-silver_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-silver-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[2]</a></sup> During this time, silver coins largely disappeared from circulation and were replaced by paper and copper currency.<sup id="cite_ref-silver_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-silver-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In China, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_peso" title="Mexican peso" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mexican peso</a> (successor to the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Spanish dollar</a>) was greatly valued in commerce. However, the Chinese were sensitive to any changes in the coin's design, and were reluctant to accept newer coins due to a minor design change. The American silver dollar, 7.5 grains (0.49 g) lighter than its Spanish counterpart, was unpopular in the Orient due to its light weight, forcing American merchants to purchase the Spanish or Mexican pieces to use in trade.<sup id="cite_ref-t251_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t251-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[3]</a></sup> Beginning in 1866, during the reign of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico" title="Maximilian I of Mexico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Emperor Maximilian</a>, the design was changed to show the Emperor's portrait; this caused widespread nonacceptance of the coins in China.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">While conducting an investigation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Mint" title="San Francisco Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mint at San Francisco</a>, deputy comptroller of the currency <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Knox" title="John Jay Knox" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">John Jay Knox</a> began discussing the monetary situation with Louis A. Garnett, a man who had worked as both the treasurer and assayer of the San Francisco Mint.<sup id="cite_ref-commercial_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-commercial-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[5]</a></sup>Garnett recommended that the United States mint a commercial dollar that would be exported to the Orient to compete with other large silver coins that were already popular in that region.<sup id="cite_ref-commercial_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-commercial-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[5]</a></sup> Garnett's rationale was that the coins would be hoarded or melted in Asia and would never be presented for redemption, allowing the government to make a profit from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage" title="Seigniorage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">seigniorage</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[6]</a></sup> During his time in San Francisco, Knox also discussed the proposed commercial dollar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Linderman" title="Henry Linderman" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Henry Linderman</a>, who was working as a special agent for the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Department of the Treasury" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Treasury Department</a> at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-commercial_4-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-commercial-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[5]</a></sup> In 1870, Knox wrote a report to the Treasury and wrote the draft for a bill on coinage.<sup id="cite_ref-commercial_4-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-commercial-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[5]</a></sup> Knox's bill was approved by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boutwell" title="George Boutwell" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">George Boutwell</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Secretary of the Treasury</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-commercial_4-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-commercial-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[5]</a></sup> After modification and review from current and former government officials, the bill was put before Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-coinageact_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-coinageact-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[7]</a></sup></p><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 202px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amazonian_pattern.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Amazonian_pattern.jpg/200px-Amazonian_pattern.jpg" width="200" height="208" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amazonian_pattern.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf4/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>Designed by Mint Chief Engraver<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barber_(engraver)" title="William Barber (engraver)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">William Barber</a>, this "Amazonian" design showing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name)" title="Columbia (name)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Columbia</a> with an eagle was rejected by Mint authorities as too militaristic.</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">On November 19, 1872, while the coinage bill was still before Congress, Linderman made a report to the Secretary of the Treasury.<sup id="cite_ref-linderman_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-linderman-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[8]</a></sup> In the report, Linderman argued that the coin need not hold legal tender status, and that it could simply be a piece of silver imprinted with its weight and fineness.<sup id="cite_ref-linderman_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-linderman-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[8]</a></sup> Linderman also notes that such a product could supersede the Mexican dollar and eventually command a six to eight percent premium; at that time, American silver exported to the Orient was being sold at a two percent discount.<sup id="cite_ref-linderman_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-linderman-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[8]</a></sup> Linderman proposed that the coin be named the "silver union" in order to distinguish it from the standard coins then in production.<sup id="cite_ref-linderman_7-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-linderman-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[8]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In February 1872, the bill was amended by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">House of Representatives</a> committee to include authorization for a commercial dollar weighing 420 grains (27 g);<sup id="cite_ref-coinageact_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-coinageact-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[7]</a></sup> this was struck three months later when the House voted to include provisions for the production of a standard silver dollar weighing 384 grains (24.9 g).<sup id="cite_ref-coinageact_6-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-coinageact-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[7]</a></sup> While in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Senate</a>, a provision was added to the bill requiring the Treasury to coin a trade dollar of 420 grains (27 g), as had been done earlier in the House.<sup id="cite_ref-coinageact_6-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-coinageact-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[7]</a></sup>The revised bill, which came to be known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1873" title="Coinage Act of 1873" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Coinage Act of 1873</a>, was approved in the House and Senate and was signed by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Ulysses S. Grant</a> on February 12, 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-coinageact_6-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-coinageact-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[7]</a></sup> The bill provided, in part, for the striking of trade dollars which held legal tender status up to five dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-quality_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-quality-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> The legal tender provision was added by a last-minute rider at the behest of silver interests.<sup id="cite_ref-b466_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-b466-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[10]</a></sup> At the insistence of Ohio Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sherman_(Ohio)" title="John Sherman (Ohio)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">John Sherman</a>, the weight and fineness of the piece was indicated on the reverse, an attribution which numismatic historian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Taxay" title="Don Taxay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Don Taxay</a> found incomprehensible as "Chinese merchants would never understand them".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[11]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Prior to the passage of the Coinage Act, the director of the Philadelphia Mint oversaw all branch mints.<sup id="cite_ref-director_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-director-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[12]</a></sup> After the Act, the office of director was transferred to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Washington, D.C.</a>, and responsibility for each mint was handed over to a superintendent.<sup id="cite_ref-director_11-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-director-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[12]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 17px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Design selection" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Design_selection">Design selection</span></h3><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Throughout the year of 1872, the Mint struck a series of commercial dollar patterns in anticipation of the passage of the coinage bill.<sup id="cite_ref-patterns_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-patterns-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[13]</a></sup>Production of patterns continued into 1873, but the denomination of the pattern coins was changed from "commercial dollar" to "trade dollar" before the bill was signed into law.<sup id="cite_ref-patterns_12-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-patterns-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[13]</a></sup> After passage of the Coinage Act, Linderman met with Director of the Mint <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pollock" title="James Pollock" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">James Pollock</a>to discuss the design of the newly authorized trade dollar.<sup id="cite_ref-patterns_12-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-patterns-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[13]</a></sup> The two men agreed to request a jewelry and engraving firm, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Banks_%26_Biddle" title="Bailey Banks & Biddle" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bailey Banks & Biddle</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Philadelphia</a>, to create designs that would be compared to those already created by Chief Engraver <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barber_(engraver)" title="William Barber (engraver)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">William Barber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-patterns_12-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-patterns-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[13]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">After examining the designs of both parties, Linderman ordered that the design would depict a seated figure representing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(goddess)" title="Liberty (goddess)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Liberty</a> facing to the viewer's left, representing the direction of the Orient.<sup id="cite_ref-patterns_12-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-patterns-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[13]</a></sup> Linderman apparently selected the designs from two different patterns.<sup id="cite_ref-t279_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t279-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[14]</a></sup>In June 1873, Linderman reviewed the various patterns created by Barber; he chose<sup id="cite_ref-minting_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-minting-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup> an obverse which one contemporary reporter described as "a female figure seated on bales of merchandise, holding in her left hand a scroll bearing the word 'Liberty'. At her back is a sheaf of wheat, expressing, with the bales of goods, the commercial character of the coin: the right hand extended holds the olive branch."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[16]</a></sup> The selected reverse depicts the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">bald eagle</a> as required by law.<sup id="cite_ref-minting_14-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-minting-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup> The eagle has three arrows in the right claw and an olive branch in the left, a reversal to most other U.S. silver coins of the era.<sup id="cite_ref-L104_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-L104-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[17]</a></sup> A set of six patterns, four with variations on the adopted obverse, and two showing portraits of Liberty, was sold by the Mint to the public in limited quantities.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[18]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Production" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Production">Production</span></h2><div class="thumb tleft" style="float: left; clear: left; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 177px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ALoudonSnowden.JPG" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/ALoudonSnowden.JPG/175px-ALoudonSnowden.JPG" width="175" height="234" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ALoudonSnowden.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf4/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>Coiner A. Loudon Snowden formally complained that the high points of the trade dollar were not being fully struck.</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Linderman assumed the position of Director of the Mint and Pollock became Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[19]</a></sup> In July 1873, production began on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_(manufacturing)" title="Die (manufacturing)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">dies</a> needed to strike the coins.<sup id="cite_ref-minting_14-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-minting-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup>During this time, in a telegram to Pollock, Linderman asked that production of trade dollars be hastened because Mexico was preparing to issue another series of dollars with the older design popular in Asia, a design that was discontinued in 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-minting_14-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-minting-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup> The first trade dollars were struck during a ceremony held on July 11, 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-minting_14-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-minting-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup> Forty thousand pieces were issued in the first release, on July 14.<sup id="cite_ref-b467_19-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-b467-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[20]</a></sup> The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_City_Mint" title="Carson City Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Carson City Mint</a> received its first dies for the new coins on July 22, and those intended for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Mint" title="San Francisco Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">San Francisco Mint</a> arrived shortly after.<sup id="cite_ref-minting_14-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-minting-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[15]</a></sup> In total, 396,635 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_strike" title="Business strike" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">business strikes</a> and 865 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_coinage" title="Proof coinage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">proof coins</a> were struck at the Philadelphia Mint during the first year of production.<sup id="cite_ref-mintagefigures_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-mintagefigures-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[21]</a></sup> The Carson City and San Francisco mints struck 124,500 and 703,000 coins respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-mintagefigures_20-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-mintagefigures-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[21]</a></sup></p><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 252px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1876TradeDollarPattern.JPG" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/1876TradeDollarPattern.JPG/250px-1876TradeDollarPattern.JPG" width="250" height="125" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1876TradeDollarPattern.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf4/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The experimental reverse design created by Anthony C. Paquet paired with a dateless obverse. Linderman approved the design, but did not implement it due to fears of Chinese disapproval of a new and unfamiliar design.</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">There were complaints that year from officials at all three of the mints concerning the quality of the coins produced.<sup id="cite_ref-quality_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-quality-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> In the summer of 1874, coiner A. Loudon Snowden issued a formal complaint to Pollock about the quality of the strikings, most notably on the high points of the design; Barber began modifying the design later that year, reducing the relief.<sup id="cite_ref-quality_8-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-quality-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> The modified dies began service in 1875.<sup id="cite_ref-quality_8-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-quality-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> In the fall of that year, Linderman suggested that the reverse of the trade dollar should be altered in 1876 to commemorate the centennial of American independence; Pollock opposed the idea, noting that such a change would be difficult to carry out because Congressional approval would be necessary and that it might cause the coin to lose favor in the Orient.<sup id="cite_ref-legaltender_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-legaltender-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[22]</a></sup> In May 1876, former assistant engraver Anthony C. Paquet created a reverse die after being hired by Linderman to improve the striking quality of the coins.<sup id="cite_ref-paquet_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-paquet-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[23]</a></sup> Linderman approved of the new design, but it was ultimately rejected by Mint officials due to fears of Chinese disapproval.<sup id="cite_ref-paquet_22-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-paquet-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[23]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Though production of business strikes ended in 1878, the striking of proof coins continued in limited numbers until 1883, when the final mintage of 979 coins was struck at the Philadelphia Mint.<sup id="cite_ref-proofs_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-proofs-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[24]</a></sup> In 1908, it was discovered that ten proofs dated 1884 and five dated 1885 were produced, but these pieces are not listed in official records and it is unknown when they were created.<sup id="cite_ref-proofs_23-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-proofs-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[24]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-image: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; "><span class="editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; float: right; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 5px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reception" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Reception">Reception</span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Most of the 1873 production was exported to China, and in October of that year, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongzhi_Emperor" title="Tongzhi Emperor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Tongzhi Emperor</a> had an assay test conducted on the coins.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[25]</a></sup> In a proclamation translated by Chinese consul and interpreter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hillier" title="Walter Hillier" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Walter Hillier</a>, the Emperor stated:</p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">This Proclamation, therefore, is for the information of you merchants, traders, soldiers and people of every district. You must know that the 'Eagle Trade Dollar' that has lately come to Hong Kong has been jointly assayed by officers specially appointed for the purpose, and it can be taken in payment of duties, and come into general circulation. You must not look upon it with suspicion. At the same time rogues, sharpers, and the like, are hereby strictly forbidden to fabricate spurious imitations of this new Eagle Dollar, with a view to their own profit.<br />And should they dare to set this prohibition at defiance, and fabricate false coin, they shall, upon discovery, most assuredly be arrested and punished. Let every one obey with trembling! Let there be no disobedience!<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[26]</a></sup></p></blockquote><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 352px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TradeDollarCartoon.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/TradeDollarCartoon.jpg/350px-TradeDollarCartoon.jpg" width="350" height="214" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TradeDollarCartoon.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf4/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>A political cartoon published in the April 25, 1874 issue of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper%27s_Weekly" title="Harper's Weekly" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Harper's Weekly</a></i>. Entitled "Rags for Our Working Men—Specie for the Foreigners", the caption for this cartoon reads "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_(name)" title="Columbia (name)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Columbia</a>: Dear me, I do think it very wrong that the good nice trade dollar (worth 100 cents) should be sent out of the country for the benefit of the 'heathen Chinee,' for if these gentlemen are permitted to have their own way, it will take a basket full of greenbacks (worth —?) to buy dinner for my children."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[27]</a></sup></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In 1874, trade dollars began appearing in American commerce.<sup id="cite_ref-quality_8-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-quality-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> In early 1875, Congress passed the Specie Redemption Act, allowing the Treasury to pay out silver coins in exchange for paper currency. That act, combined with a drop in the price of silver, caused hoarded or exported silver coins to reappear in commerce within the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[28]</a></sup> Many trade dollars were reimported, especially to California.<sup id="cite_ref-b466_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-b466-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[10]</a></sup> After the value of silver began to decline and the intrinsic value of the coins fell below one dollar, bullion depositors began having their silver struck as trade dollars and selling them wholesale to be distributed throughout the country.<sup id="cite_ref-quality_8-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-quality-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[9]</a></sup> Bullion producers opted to coin their silver into trade dollars because the Coinage Act of 1873 specified that silver brought to the Mint could only be struck as such or cast into bars.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[29]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Congress considered raising the five-dollar legal tender limit on trade dollars,<sup id="cite_ref-L116_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-L116-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[30]</a></sup> but instead passed a bill that officially demonetized the trade dollar on July 22, 1876;<sup id="cite_ref-legaltender_21-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-legaltender-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[22]</a></sup> the Secretary of the Treasury was directed by the act to strike no more of the coins than necessary for use in trade.<sup id="cite_ref-t282_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t282-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[31]</a></sup> Despite the demonetization of the trade dollar, bullion producers continued to place the coins into the American market, resulting in an estimated seven million coins circulating within the United States,<sup id="cite_ref-legaltender_21-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-legaltender-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[22]</a></sup> of which more than four million were placed in circulation in 1877.<sup id="cite_ref-t282_30-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t282-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[31]</a></sup> Despite the 1876 act, it was not until October 15, 1877 that Sherman (now Secretary of the Treasury) finally ordered that the mints not accept orders for trade dollars. On November 5, apparently believing a false report that additional supplies were needed for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year" title="Chinese New Year" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Chinese New Year</a>, he rescinded his order, finally ending orders for trade dollars on February 22, 1878.<sup id="cite_ref-t283_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t283-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[32]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Linderman ordered a review of the successfulness of the trade dollar in China.<sup id="cite_ref-paquet_22-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-paquet-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[23]</a></sup> It was discovered that the coins circulated reasonably well in southern China, but usage in the north was limited.<sup id="cite_ref-paquet_22-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-paquet-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[23]</a></sup> As the price of silver decreased, employers in the United States began paying workers in trade dollars purchased at a discount.<sup id="cite_ref-silvervalue_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-silvervalue-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[33]</a></sup> The situation frustrated the public, as the coins were widely disliked and many banks and businesses refused to accept the coins.<sup id="cite_ref-silvervalue_32-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-silvervalue-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[33]</a></sup> In response, many towns set a fixed value on trade dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-silvervalue_32-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-silvervalue-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[33]</a></sup> Businesses which did accept trade dollars to avoid offending customers could not deposit them in banks or use them to pay taxes, and sold them to brokers. The brokers in turn recirculated the coins by selling them at a discount from face value to employers who included them in workers' pay packets. In 1883, members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mercantile_Exchange" title="New York Mercantile Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">New York Mercantile Exchange</a> petitioned Congress to allow redemption of the coins by the government.<sup id="cite_ref-t284_33-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t284-33" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-L117_34-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-L117-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[35]</a></sup></p><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; "><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 3px !important; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; overflow: hidden; width: 252px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carson_City_ledger_book.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Carson_City_ledger_book.jpg/250px-Carson_City_ledger_book.jpg" width="250" height="370" class="thumbimage" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px !important; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; "><div class="magnify" style="border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carson_City_ledger_book.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.20wmf4/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; " /></a></div>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_City_Mint" title="Carson City Mint" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Carson City Mint</a>'s trade dollar ledger book</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Bullion prices continued to drop through the 1880s, increasing the loss by anyone forced to sell at melt value after accepting a trade dollar at face value.<sup id="cite_ref-L117_34-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-L117-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[35]</a></sup> Despite the support of Secretary of the Treasury <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Folger" title="Charles J. Folger" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Charles J. Folger</a>, the question of the redemption of the trade dollar became caught up in controversy over the heavy coinage of the new<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_dollar" title="Morgan dollar" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Morgan dollar</a> under the inflationary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland%E2%80%93Allison_Act" title="Bland–Allison Act" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bland–Allison Act</a>. Silver interests objected to the silver from redeemed trade dollars being counted towards the Mint's monthly quota under the act, preferring to sell newly mined silver instead, and opposed acts which so provided. It was not until 1887 that Congress, ostensibly to relieve the poor (though most trade dollars were by then in the hands of speculators), provided for the redemption of unmutilated trade dollars. The act, which did not count the redeemed silver towards the Bland–Allison Act quota, passed into law on February 14, 1887, when the ten-day period which President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Grover Cleveland</a> had to either sign or veto it expired with no action by the President.<sup id="cite_ref-t284_33-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-t284-33" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[34]</a></sup> Many coins were not redeemable due to chop marks applied by Chinese businessmen, which was done to affirm the coin's silver content.<sup id="cite_ref-silvervalue_32-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-silvervalue-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[33]</a></sup> The dollars were only redeemable for six months, and the recovered silver was struck into dimes, quarters, and half dollars.<sup id="cite_ref-L117_34-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-L117-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[35]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Numismatic historian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Breen" title="Walter Breen" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Walter Breen</a> criticized both the legal tender provision and the coin in general, stating that the coin's issuance was "an expensive mistake – its motivation mere greed, its design a triumph of dullness, its domestic circulation and legal tender status a disastrous provision of law leading only to ghastly abuses."<sup id="cite_ref-b466_9-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-b466-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[10]</a></sup>Trade dollars were again made legal tender by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1965" title="Coinage Act of 1965" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Coinage Act of 1965</a>, which stated in part "All coins and currencies of the United States (including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_note" title="Federal Reserve note" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Federal Reserve notes</a> and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations), regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."<sup id="cite_ref-b466_9-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dollar_(United_States_coin)#cite_note-b466-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; 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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px !important; padding-top: 10px; color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto; "><div class="header" style="margin: 0px 20px; width: 780px; "><h1 id="articleTitle" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 27px; line-height: 30px; padding-right: 30px; ">Jenny McCarthy Bares All For Sixth <i>Playboy</i> Cover</h1><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; ">Actress tells <i>People</i> her latest photos are 'a lot more sophisticated.'</h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; "><br /></span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; ">By Kara Warner (@</span><a class="twitter-anywhere-user" href="http://twitter.com/karawarner" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 188, 228); text-decoration: none; ">karawarner</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; ">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; "> </span><a href="mailto:kara.warner@mtvstaff.com" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 188, 228); text-decoration: none; "><img src="http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/images/spacer.gif" class="authorEmail" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border: 0px none; vertical-align: bottom; background-image: url(http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/images/charlie/sprites/site_wide_original.png); background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; height: 11px; width: 13px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; " /></a></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><br /></span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">Actress/model/advocate</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><mtvnlink type="movieperson" id="3622" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">Jenny McCarthy</mtvnlink><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">has once again set tongues wagging with her sixth appearance on the cover of</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">Playboy.</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">The blonde bombshell is featured on the cover of the July/August issue wearing nothing but some black knee-high tights and coordinating fingerless fishnet gloves. In addition to the cover photo, McCarthy appears in an eight-page photo spread inside the magazine, her seventh pictorial for</span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">Playboy.</i></h2><div><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><br /></i></div><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">The 39-year-old told</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20606671,00.html" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 188, 228); text-decoration: none; ">People magazine</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">that this particular photo shoot was particularly special because of the classy factor.</span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><br /></span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">"I'm really proud of it," McCarthy told the magazine. "The pictures are really gorgeous and classy. They could be out of</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">W</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">magazine. They're really elegant. It's probably a lot more sophisticated than a lot of the stuff you'd see of people with their clothes on."</span></h2><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><br /></span></div><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:794782/cp~vid%3D794782" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" name="mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:794782" id="mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:794782" width="415" height="255" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autoPlay=true&sid=MTV_News_Articles" allowscriptaccess="always" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "></embed></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><br /></span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">McCarthy made her</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">Playboy</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">debut in 1993 as a centerfold and later went on to be named Playmate of the Month and Playmate of the Year. Shortly thereafter MTV enlisted McCarthy to co-host our popular '90s dating show "Singled Out," which officially put the model/personality on the pop culture map.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292300,00.html" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 188, 228); text-decoration: none; ">Entertainment Weekly</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">deemed McCarthy "the Vanna White for the MTV generation," and praised her plucky, outspoken and signature touchy-feely hosting methods.</span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; "><br /></span></h2><h2 class="sub-title article" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 21px; line-height: 23px; padding-right: 30px; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; background-color: transparent; ">McCarthy parlayed her fame into multiple roles in television series and film, including two of her own self-titled sitcoms, but in recent years has become more well-known for her work as an activist for autism awareness, on behalf of her own autistic son Evan and the challenges and preconceptions associated with parenting autistic children. 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"I think people make such a big deal sometimes about it, when I feel like it just comes down to how you raise your child and how you explain things to your kid." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">As for how she'll talk about the spread with her son, she says, "Evan and I will have that conversation someday." <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><div class="relatedtext" style="margin: 0px 0px -15px; padding: 3px 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; float: none; width: 446px; background-position: 0px 50%; "><a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20606671,00.html" class="tracklink2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 122, 180); background-position: 0px 50%; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; color: rgb(136, 196, 66); background-position: 0px 50%; ">PHOTO:</b> Jenny McCarthy's Sexy-at-39 Playboy Cover: Sneak Peek</a></div><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><div class="imgcont img300x400 alignright" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 12px 22px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: url(http://img2.timeinc.net/people/static/i/misc/hash-lines.gif); font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; position: relative; float: right; width: 300px; text-align: center; "><img src="http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2012/news/120702/jenny-mccarthy-2-300.jpg" alt="Jenny McCarthy Is Comfortable Posing Nude as a Mom| Celebrity Scandals, Playboy, Bodywatch, Jenny McCarthy" border="0" height="400" width="300" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; float: left; background-position: 0px 50%; " /><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px; border-width: 0px 12px 0px 0px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; clear: left; float: left; width: 300px; background-position: 0px 50%; "><p class="caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; text-align: left; background-position: 0px 50%; ">Jenny McCarthy</p><p class="credit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; border: 0px; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; text-align: left; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-position: 0px 50%; ">Courtesy Playboy</p></div></div>Although McCarthy is pleased with the work she's done in her life, you won't see any evidence of it displayed on her walls at home. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; "><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; background-position: 0px 50%; ">"I don't have one [magazine] cover up, period," she says, calling it "hilarious" that anyone would decorate their home with photos of themselves. "I mean, I don't even have my<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; color: inherit; background-position: 0px 50%; ">Rolling Stone</em> cover up. It's like, who wants to look at themselves? I don't. Seriously, the only picture I have up of myself is one of a shark eating Evan and me."</div><div id="relatedcontent" style="margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 10px solid rgb(245, 58, 118); font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; clear: left; float: left; width: 430px; overflow: hidden; background-position: 0px 50%; "><h2 class="latest" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 8px 3px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 58, 118); font-size: 20px; line-height: 16px; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; ">The Latest on Jenny McCarthy</h2><div id="articlemore" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; list-style: none; clear: left; float: left; width: 426px; background-position: 0px 50%; "><h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 125); 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">Visit Jenny McCarthy's PEOPLE Page</a><div><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-54295963178400951772012-06-26T11:34:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:34:51.469-07:00ANN CURRY Negotiating Exit From NBC Savannah Guthrie A Lock<div id="single-post-headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 500px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span class="hf1" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-transform: uppercase; ">ANN CURRY</span><br /><span class="hf2-case" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; ">Negotiating Exit From NBC</span><br /><span class="hf3-case" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; ">Savannah Guthrie A Lock</span></div></div><div itemprop="articleBody" class="all-post-body group" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; position: relative; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="primary-image-swipe" style="margin: 0px; padding: 6px 20px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; background-color: rgb(207, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 24px; text-align: center; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.398438) 2px 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.398438) 2px 4px; cursor: default; ">EXCLUSIVE</div><strong><img alt="0625_ann_curry_savannah_01" src="http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/06/26/0625-ann-curry-savannah-2.jpg" style="border: 0px none; display: block; max-width: 560px; " /><br />Ann Curry</strong> and NBC are negotiating her exit from "<strong>Today</strong>" and the hang-up is money ... sources connected with the network tell TMZ.<br /><br />Our sources say<strong> Savannah Guthrie</strong> has already made her deal with the network to succeed Ann as co-anchor of "Today," but the snag is the amount of money Ann will get.<br /><br />As we first reported, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/22/ann-curry-nbc-10-million-dollars-salary/" style="color: rgb(11, 87, 119); text-decoration: none; "><strong>Ann gets $10 million a year</strong></a>. She is one year into a 3-year contract, and from what we're hearing NBC does not want to pay her $20 million for the balance of the contract.<br /><br /><strong>Sources tell us Ann wants the full $20 mil and her exit papers. NBC wants to pay her $10 mil and give her a foreign correspondent job. And therein lies the hang-up. </strong><br /><br />The network could pay her the $20 mil and then prohibit her from working anywhere else for 2 years. But we're told they don't want to shell out that kind of dough, so Ann's lawyer and NBC are haggling.<br /><br />NBC wants to make the switch quickly ... certainly before the Olympics so they can showcase Savannah. We're hearing the goal is to make the announcement late this week or early next.<a name="continued" style="color: rgb(11, 87, 119); "></a><div class="related" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both; position: relative; line-height: 1.4em; "><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(207, 0, 0); font-style: italic; ">See also</h3><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; "><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/22/ann-curry-nbc-10-million-dollars-salary/" style="color: rgb(11, 87, 119); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; ">NBC's $10 Million Ann Curry Mistake</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; "><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/21/meredith-vieira-ann-curry-today-show-matt-lauer-savannah-guthrie/" style="color: rgb(11, 87, 119); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; ">Meredith Vieira Turned Down NBC Offer to Replace Ann Curry On 'Today'</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; "><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/05/matt-lauer-re-signs-today-show-30-million-dollars-ann-curry/" style="color: rgb(11, 87, 119); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: bold; ">Matt Lauer Re-Signs with 'Today' -- Ann Curry On Chopping Block</a></li></ul></div></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-54262507983399707442012-06-26T11:33:00.000-07:002012-06-26T11:34:15.969-07:00Jenny McCarthy and other parents who pose nude or nearly nude<h1 class="blogtitle" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Jenny McCarthy and other parents who pose nude or nearly nude</h1><div class="entry-content blogentrytext" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 4px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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height: 40px !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; border: none; " /></li><li idx="19" style="padding: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px !important; width: 40px; overflow: hidden; float: left; position: relative; height: 40px; z-index: 901; cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://blog.chron.com/momhouston/wp-content/blogs.dir/1830/files/parents-who-pose/thumbs/thumbs_homes-belinda-carlisle-jpeg-0da3b.jpg" alt="Homes-Belinda Carlisle" title="Homes-Belinda Carlisle" style="width: auto; height: 40px !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; border: none; " /></li><li idx="20" style="padding: 0px; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px !important; width: 40px; overflow: hidden; float: left; position: relative; height: 40px; z-index: 901; cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://blog.chron.com/momhouston/wp-content/blogs.dir/1830/files/parents-who-pose/thumbs/thumbs_gyi0058892387.jpg" alt="92960846AS001_FLESHBOT_COM_" title="92960846AS001_FLESHBOT_COM_" style="width: auto; height: 40px !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; border: none; " /></li></ul></div><div class="frame_pointer" id="pointer_6033" style="position: absolute; z-index: 1000; cursor: pointer; top: 407.5px; left: 57.5px; height: 35px; width: 35px; border: 5px solid white; "></div><img class="nav-next" src="http://blog.chron.com/wp-content/plugins/hdn-nextgen-gallery-view/images/next.png" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; width: auto; position: absolute; cursor: pointer; top: 414px; right: 25px; " /><img class="nav-prev" src="http://blog.chron.com/wp-content/plugins/hdn-nextgen-gallery-view/images/prev.png" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; width: auto; position: absolute; cursor: pointer; top: 414px; left: 30px; " /></div></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">Jenny McCarthy is celebrating her 40th birthday by <strong><a href="http://gawker.com/5911187/jenny-mccarthy-to-celebrate-turning-40-by-taking-her-clothes-off-for-playboy">posing nude for Playboy</a></strong>. The issue will be released in July.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">McCarthy is no stranger to the magazine’s fans. Two decades ago she was even Playmate of the Year which launched her career as a model, TV personality and activist.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">But now McCarthy is a mom which raises some interesting questions for her kids. She has some nude parent role models, Pamela Anderson is a mom and she’s been on the cover of Playboy more than any other woman. Dads will sometimes pose nude for magazines as well, such as when Levi Johnston “went rogue” in 2009.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">These kids are still fairly young, but what happens when they become teens?</p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-46214370206396434912012-06-26T11:32:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:32:58.889-07:00Jenny McCarthy and other parents who pose nude or nearly nude<h1 class="blogtitle" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Jenny McCarthy and other parents who pose nude or nearly nude</h1><div class="entry-content blogentrytext" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 4px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><div id="hdn_slideshow_6033" class="hdn_slideshow" style="position: relative; 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The issue will be released in July.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">McCarthy is no stranger to the magazine’s fans. Two decades ago she was even Playmate of the Year which launched her career as a model, TV personality and activist.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">But now McCarthy is a mom which raises some interesting questions for her kids. She has some nude parent role models, Pamela Anderson is a mom and she’s been on the cover of Playboy more than any other woman. Dads will sometimes pose nude for magazines as well, such as when Levi Johnston “went rogue” in 2009.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; ">These kids are still fairly young, but what happens when they become teens?</p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-38675565556963271122012-06-26T11:31:00.000-07:002012-06-26T11:32:09.555-07:00Michael Jackson's convicted doctor wishes he testified: lawyers<h1 style="font-size: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 1.1; font-weight: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Michael Jackson's convicted doctor wishes he testified: lawyers</h1><div class="facebookRec" tns="no" style="clear: both; padding-top: 5px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fin.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2012%2F06%2F26%2Fentertainment-us-usa-michaeljackson-doct-idINBRE85P08520120626&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=recommend&colorscheme=light&height=35" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" style="border-style: none; 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REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni" style="display: block; " /><div class="rolloverCaption" id="captionContent" style="bottom: 0px; left: 0px; position: absolute; width: 460px; z-index: 2; "><div class="rolloverBg" style="width: 460px; background-image: url(http://in.reuters.com/resources_v2/images/bg_rollover_caption.png) !important; background-color: transparent !important; padding-bottom: 0px; "><div class="captionText" style="padding: 10px; color: rgb(221, 221, 221); position: relative; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; ">Dr. Conrad Murray sits in court after he was sentenced to four years in county jail for his involuntary manslaughter conviction of pop star Michael Jackson in Los Angeles November 29, 2011.</p><p class="credit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(161, 161, 161); ">Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni</p></div></div></div></div><div id="relatedInlineVideo" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "></div><span id="articleText" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><span id="midArticle_start"></span><div id="articleInfo" style="margin-bottom: 10px; "><p class="byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">By Steve Gorman</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span class="location" style="font-weight: bold; ">LOS ANGELES</span> | <span class="timestamp" style="margin: 0px; ">Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:07pm IST</span></p></div><span id="midArticle_0"></span><span class="focusParagraph"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.5; ">(Reuters) - The physician convicted of killing Michael Jackson regrets not testifying on his own behalf while on trial last year, two defense lawyers said on Monday after visiting the jailed doctor on the third anniversary of the pop star's death.</p></span><span id="midArticle_1"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Dr. Conrad Murray, hired as the "Thriller" singer's personal physician in 2009, began serving a four-year jail term in November after a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter.</p><span id="midArticle_2"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Prosecutors argued during the six-week trial that Murray was grossly negligent in administering the surgical anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid to Jackson and that the doctor failed to properly monitor Jackson on the drug.</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">They also presented evidence that Murray delayed in calling for emergency assistance when the singer stopped breathing the night of his death and that the doctor failed to tell arriving medical personnel he had given the performer propofol.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Defense lawyers say Murray gave Jackson a small dose of propofol to help him sleep. But they argued the singer was dependent on the drug and likely gave himself an extra, fatal dose - and swallowed a handful of sedatives - without Murray knowing.</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Two of his lawyers visited Murray on Monday at the Los Angeles County jail where he is incarcerated. Attorney J. Michael Flanagan said the doctor was "adapting fairly well for a person who is serving time and who is actually innocent".</p><span id="midArticle_6"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Jackson was found lifeless at his Los Angeles mansion on June 25, 2009, about three weeks before he was due to begin a series of concerts in London aimed at returning him to the limelight after the humiliation of his 2005 trial and acquittal on child molestation allegations.</p><span id="midArticle_7"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Murray's attorneys denied he was guilty of criminal negligence. But the physician himself never took the witness stand in his own defense, a decision he has come to regret, according to his appellate lawyer, Valerie Wass, and Flanagan, the co-counsel for his manslaughter trial.</p><span id="midArticle_8"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Flanagan told Reuters that Murray's lead trial attorney, Ed Chernoff, was adamant that Murray not take the stand. Flanagan said he strongly disagreed with Chernoff, but Murray ultimately followed Chernoff's advice and declined to testify.</p><span id="midArticle_9"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">"Murray now realizes that he should have testified," Flanagan said, adding that there were various nuances in the case that Murray alone, as the only person who was with Jackson in the last hours of his life, could adequately explain to the jury.</p><span id="midArticle_10"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">"Now he says that the biggest mistake he made in the trial of the case was not testifying," Flanagan said. "We had so many gaps in the case that needed to be filled, that could only be supplied by Dr. Murray."</p><span id="midArticle_11"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">If the verdict were to be reversed on grounds of an error of law by the court or over an issue of admissibility of evidence or flawed jury instructions, leading to a retrial, the defense would then seek to put Murray on the stand, Flanagan said.</p><span id="midArticle_12"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">Wass, who is working on an appeal for Murray, suggested that jurors might have been influenced by information they inadvertently saw about the case through social media that they were allowed access to during the trial.</p><span id="midArticle_13"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">"I think during the trial, it would have been difficult not to go on Twitter and see anything (about the case)," she said. Flanagan said it would have been better to sequester the jury due to the extremely high profile of the trial.</p><span id="midArticle_14"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">He said he expected that Murray would end up serving no more than two years of his term, and could find himself released before his appeal ran its course, under guidelines that allow for reduced time for good behavior.</p><span id="midArticle_15"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; ">(Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)</p></span>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-33203045513400877352012-06-26T11:29:00.000-07:002012-06-26T11:30:38.035-07:00Kevin Youkilis aids in win before being traded<div id="area-article-header" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; float: left; width: 630px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="mod-article-header" class="mod-bostonarticleheader mod-articleheader mod-articleheader-with-kicker" style="font-family: arial, serif; font-size: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><h1 style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 22px; line-height: 23px; ">Kevin Youkilis aids in win before being traded</h1><h1 style="padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 22px; line-height: 23px; "><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; ">It had been evident for several days that the Red Sox were planning to trade Kevin Youkilis. But when the sun came up Sunday and he was still on the roster, general manager Ben Cherington and manager Bobby Valentine decided Youkilis would play against the Atlanta Braves.</span></h1></div></div><div id="area-article-block-1" style="font-size: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="mod-article-text-1" class="mod-bostonarticletext mod-articletext" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">wanted to give David Ortiz a day off and that opened a spot for Youkilis against Atlanta lefthander Mike Minor.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">“Bobby felt like he could help us win a game,’’ Cherington said. “That’s the idea, to win the game.’’</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">In the end, it worked to perfection. Youkilis contributed to a 9-4 victory against the Braves and before the game was over had been traded to the Chicago White Sox.</p></div></div><div class="float" style="font-size: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; "><img src="http://articles.boston.com/images/pixel.gif" height="1" width="1" alt="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; " /></div><div id="area-article-block-2" style="font-size: 100%; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: arial, serif; line-height: 21px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="mod-article-text-2" class="mod-bostonarticletextwithadcpc mod-bostonarticletext mod-articletext" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">“A crazy day,’’ said Cody Ross, who drove in five runs with a pair of home runs to left field. “But it probably worked out pretty well for everybody involved.’’</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">The spontaneity couldn’t be beat. As the trade was about to be consummated, Youkilis was due up in the seventh inning and Cherington sent word to Valentine to get the third baseman out of the game.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">Valentine told the players in the dugout what was going on as Youkilis went to the plate. With two outs and a runner on first, Youkilis hit what looked like a routine fly ball to right-center. But center fielder Michael Bourn and right fielder Jason Heyward each thought the other had it and the ball fell between them. Youkilis, running hard in his last steps as a member of the Red Sox, slid in with a gift triple.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">Nick Punto, who was going to replace Youkilis either on the bases or in the field before the next inning, was rooting for the ball to drop.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">“Oh, my. You have no idea,’’ said Punto, one of Youkilis’s better friends in the game. “It’s a lot better when you get an RBI triple.’’</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">Youkilis hugged Punto as their paths crossed, then he saluted the wildly cheering crowd of 37,565. After being engulfed by his teammates in the dugout, Youkilis took a curtain call at the urging of Valentine, two men who didn’t get along very well the last few months finally agreeing on something.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">With that, Youkilis went down the small tunnel and up the stairs to the clubhouse. The nameplate above his locker was gone by the time the game was over.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">For all the emotion on the field and in the stands - and there was plenty - the business of baseball went on. On the day Youkilis was traded, the reasons he had to go were evident.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">Adrian Gonzalez, now the full-time first baseman, was 2 for 3 with a walk and a home run. With Youkilis off the roster, Gonzalez won’t be playing right field any more.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif !important; line-height: 21px; ">Gonzalez hit .254 with a .648 OPS in 18 games as a right fielder. In his last five games, all at first base, he is 7 for 20 with three walks. 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The storm seemed to be stalled or moving but slowly from its perch in the waters of the gulf. Drenching rains and a slow-moving storm center mean that parts of Florida could get 10 to 25 inches of rain in the coming days, forecasters said.<br /><br />At least one death, from a storm-related tornado, has been reported in Florida, and officials in Alabama were looking for a person who disappeared in heavy surf.<br /><br />According to a morning update from the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORGOV0000100" title="National Hurricane Center" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/disasters-accidents/meteorological-disasters/hurricanes/national-hurricane-center-ORGOV0000100.topic" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none; ">National Hurricane Center</a>, the <a href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; ">storm</a> was about 75 miles south of Apalachicola and was moving northeast at about 3 mph. It was carrying top sustained winds of 45 mph.<br /><br />"Debby is currently stationary, and no significant motion is expected through the next day or so as a weak steering flow remains in the region," <a href="http://www.floridadisaster.org/index.asp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; ">said</a> the Florida Division of Emergency Management. "All of the Florida Panhandle near and west of the Suwannee River is in the 3-day error cone and most areas north of a Port Charlotte to <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLREC000051" title="Cape Canaveral" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/travel/tourism-leisure/cape-canaveral-PLREC000051.topic" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none; ">Cape Canaveral</a> line are within the 5-day error cone."<br /><br />According to Florida officials, areas within the three-day cone have a 40% or greater chance of receiving tropical-storm-force winds. Flash-flood watches were in effect for most of the Florida Panhandle as well for parts of the northeast, west-central and southwest areas of the state. Additionally, flood warnings are in effect for several west-central Florida rivers, officials said.<br /><br />The latest projections have the storm moving into northern Florida somewhere between Destin and<a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100404010000" title="Tampa" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/us/florida/hillsborough-county/tampa-PLGEO100100404010000.topic" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none; ">Tampa</a> in the next three to five days, officials said.<br /><br />"Tropical storm force winds, heavy rainfall and isolated tornadoes are the main concerns today," according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management posting. "Rainfall amounts of 5+ inches today and tonight may lead to continued flooding for many areas of the state. In addition, locally heavy rainfall of potentially up to 10-20 inches through the next few days will continue to exacerbate flooding concerns of some areas."<br /><br />So far, the most damage has occurred in the western portion of the state, which has felt severe blows from the rains and reported tornadoes. High winds forced a roadway bridge that spans Tampa Bay and links St. Petersburg with areas to the southeast to be closed. Some streets were under water in Tampa, officials said.<br /><br />St. George Island was also hard-hit and had lost electricity. 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"It was crazy."</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The Olympic Trials champion was <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/People/Athletes/Olympic+Sports/Dawn+Harper" title="More news, photos about Dawn Harper" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">Dawn Harper</a>, the woman who won gold in 2008 when Jones hit the second-to-last hurdle in Beijing.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Harper bested the stacked field in a time of 12.77, just ahead of runner-up <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Kellie+Wells" title="More news, photos about Kellie Wells" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">Kellie Wells</a>.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">For Jones, third place has never felt this good.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"I woke up (Saturday morning) and I didn't even think I'd make the team," said Jones, one day after a disappointing start in a prelim that cause her to break the dreaded 13-second barrier.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"I was fighting a constant head battle, just trying to find the confidence.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"I'm just thrilled to have another shot."</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Dennis+Shaver" title="More news, photos about Dennis Shaver" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">Dennis Shaver</a>, Lolo's personal coach who guided her while she constructed a star-studded career at<a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/LSU" title="More news, photos about LSU" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">LSU</a>, knew the challenge to make this Olympic team would be tougher because of the surgery and injures.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">He also knew something else.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"She's a tough person," Shaver said as he waited for Jones to surface from the Hayward Field track. 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I'm not surprised she rose to the occasion."</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The pressure to return to the Olympics intensified to levels even Jones didn't expect.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Jones became even more of a national name this year with appearances on or in <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Publishers,+Media,+Music/ESPN" title="More news, photos about ESPN" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">ESPN</a>, <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Publishers,+Media,+Music/HBO" title="More news, photos about HBO" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">HBO</a>, the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/NBC+Nightly+News" title="More news, photos about NBC Nightly News" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">NBC Nightly News</a>, <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Companies/Publishers,+Media,+Music/Rolling+Stone" title="More news, photos about Rolling Stone" style="outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(0, 82, 155); text-decoration: none; ">Rolling Stone</a> and more.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The final days and hours before the pressure-melting final felt like "two married people bickering," Jones said.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"That's how every relationship was," Jones said. "With my coach, my family. (Friday), after the first round, when I ran 13 seconds, I went back in and, as calm as I could, but it was just not — it was like a reality meltdown — I was like, 'Coach Shaver, I need you to stop lying to me. Do I look bad?' "</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"It wasn't that calm. I was actually screaming. I actually threw a shoe. It was a nightmare. I'm just glad I got it all over, and I have a month to prepare for the Olympics."</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Shaver, her coach, pumped as much confidence into Jones as possible.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"I kept telling here experience means something in this meet," he said. "She's been here. We knew her best races were ahead of her (after recovering from injuries). And we knew this (Olympic Trials) would be the toughest part."</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"She's a tough cookie."</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">As an on-track interview with Jones over the public address system boomed into the chilled Oregon sky, Angie Jefferson, Lolo's sister, beamed.</p><p class="inside-copy" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">"She's a fighter," Jefferson said. "I told her, 'Nothing has come easy' or ever been handed to her. 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cursor: pointer; "><img src="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/game-on/2012/06/24/UFC2x-wide-community.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="254" cutline="Rich Franklin survived a second-round knockdown and rallied to outpoint Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva in hostile territory at Saturday's UFC 147 event." credit="MMA Junkie" keywords="UFC 147" style="border: 1px solid rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; float: none; " /></a><div class="legend" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; z-index: 20; bottom: 1px; left: 0px; width: 422px; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); opacity: 0.7; visibility: hidden; "><div class="wording" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "></div></div></div><div class="controls" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><div class="label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100px; float: left; "><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/mma/post/2012-06-24/ufcs-franklin-survives-silva-in-hostile-territory/789525/1" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 0px 0px 11px; font-size: 10px; background-image: url(http://i.usatoday.net/_common/_images/caption0.gif); background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">CAPTION</a></div><div class="credit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 322px; float: left; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: right; ">MMA Junkie</div></div></div></div>BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — Rich Franklin's best days may be behind him, but the veteran mixed martial artist still has a flair for the dramatic.<p></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The former middleweight champion survived a second-round knockdown and rallied to outpoint Brazilian legend Wanderlei Silva in hostile territory at Saturday's UFC 147 event.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The 190-pound catchweight fight headlined UFC 147's pay-per-view lineup and took place at a sold-out Estadio Jornalista Felipe Drumond in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Franklin, who took the fight on four weeks' notice for injured Vitor Belfort, silenced a very pro-Silva crowd with a five-round unanimous-decision victory (49-46 on all scorecards). Franklin also outpointed "The Axe Murderer" three years ago at UFC 99.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The 37-year-old Franklin and 35-year-old Silva entered UFC 147 a combined 5-9 in their previous 14 fights. It's hardly the success that warrants headlining spots, but the fan favorites have been proven draws. So with few other options available, officials booked the rematch and hoped to capitalize on Silva's fame in his home country.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Franklin, though, proved quicker to the punch throughout the fight, and despite a 16-month layoff due to shoulder-surgery recovery, his conditioning and durability were superb. Both helped him survive Silva's second-round knockdown and subsequent ground-and-pound assault that had "Ace" in survival mode until he was saved by the bell.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The series, in fact, admittedly sapped Silva (34-12-1 MMA, 4-7 UFC) of energy, and Franklin (29-6 MMA, 14-5 UFC) capitalized in the later rounds to set up the decision win.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">"I honestly don't remember it," Franklin said of the second-round right hook that floored him. "When that kind of stuff happens, you remember bits and pieces. ... I was operating on auto-pilot for a while."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Franklin, who had been toiling in the light-heavyweight division after losing his middleweight belt to dominant champ Anderson Silva, said he's planning a return to his former weight class for one final title run before retirement.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">-- Ferreira, Bezerra win 'TUF: Brazil'</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">In the night's other featured bouts, two tournament winners were crowned as part of the conclusion of "The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The first international edition of the UFC's long-running reality series drew big ratings in Brazil, so it was fitting the tourney conclusions were booked for the UFC's Brazilian event.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">In the middleweight-tournament final, Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira (5-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) topped Sergio "Serginho" Moraes (6-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) via unanimous decision. In the featherweight final, Rony "Jason" Mariano Bezerra (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) did the same to Godofredo "Pepey" de Oliveira (8-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Both winners receive long-term UFC contracts and will feature prominently on future cards.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">-- Full UFC 147 results:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Rich Franklin def. Wanderlei Silva via unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46)</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Cezar "Mutante" Ferreira def. Sergio "Serginho" Moraes via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27) - to win "TUF: Brazil" middleweight tourney</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Rony "Jason" Mariano Bezerra def. Godofredo "Pepey" de Oliveira via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) - to win "TUF: Brazil" featherweight tourney</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Fabricio Werdum def. Mike Russow via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 2:28</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Hacran Dias def. Yuri Alcantara via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Rodrigo Damm def. Anistavio "Gasparzinho" Medeiros via submission (rear-naked choke) - Round 1, 2:12</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Francisco "Massaranduba" Drinaldo def. Delson "Pe de Chumbo" Heleno via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 4:21</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Hugo "Wolverine" Viana def. John "Macapa" Teixeira via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Thiago "Bodao" Perpetuo def. Leonarda "Macarrao" Mafra via TKO (punches) - Round 3, 0:41</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Marcos "Vina" Vinicius def. Wagner "Galeto" Campos via TKO (strikes) - Round 3, 1:04</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Felipe Arantes and Milton Vieira fight to a split draw (29-28, 28-29, 28-28)</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><em>Contributing: John Morgan</em></p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-27380536529706559142012-06-26T11:27:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:27:22.752-07:00‘The Legend of Korra’ Season Finale: TV Recap<div class="wrap padding-left-big" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="articleHeadlineBox headlineType-newswire" style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px; font-size: 1em; 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">By Christopher John Farley</h3><div class="mceTemp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em; clear: both; "><dl class="wp-caption alignleft caption-alignleft " style="margin: 0px 27px 12px 8px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 553px; "><dt class="wp-caption-dt" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><img class="size-full wp-image-5" src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-TK633_korraf_G_20120618163924.jpg" alt="" width="553" height="369" style="border: none; margin: 8px 0px 0px; " /></dt><dd class="wp-caption-dd wp-cite-dd" style="margin: 2px 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-align: right; ">Nickelodeon</dd><dd class="wp-caption-dd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Scene from the finale of “The Legend of Korra.”</dd></dl></div><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">We’ve reached the end of the first season, and I’ve realized that part of what makes “<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/06/19/the-legend-of-korra-creators-preview-the-finale/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); outline: none; border-bottom-style: none !important; ">The Legend of Korra</a>” so distinctive is that it actually has an end. Most kids programs assume lowered attention spans and reduced expectations; their plot arcs don’t continue from week to week, much less the course of a whole season. “Korra” respects its story and its fans. J.K. Rowling bet that kids would read 800 page books; Suzanne Collins wagered that young adults could handle themes of violence and social control. The creators of “Korra” are hoping they’re not telling their tale to a nation of amnesiacs, and that viewers, whatever their age, will stay with a complex story, if it is told with wit, style and drama.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">As we begin the two-part finale with the episode “Skeletons in the Closet,” General Iroh and the United Forces have arrived–but they’ve sailed into a trap. Hiroshi Sato has invented the biplane, and, in a scene that evokes the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they stage a surprise attack against the fleet.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“Where does Hiroshi find the time to keep inventing new evil machines?” Bolin asks, in one of a number of Sokka-quality wisecracks he gets to toss off this episode.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Nursing his wounds, Iroh regroups. He orders the rest of the United Forces fleet to stay back, and readies a fresh attack on the equalist air base. Meanwhile, Korra decides it’s time to confront Amon, and goes with Mako to battle him on Air Temple Island.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In a jail cell on Air Temple Island, Korra and Mako run into Tarrlok.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">He tells them a secret: “I’m Amon’s brother.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Tarrlok tells them his tale of family woe. Tarrlok and Amon (who had a different name growing up) are both sons of the gangster Yakone. After his defeat at the hands of the Avatar, Yakone settled in the Northern Water Tribe. But after their father discovered both his sons were waterbenders, he secretly trained them in the forbidden art of bloodbending. (The scenes of the brothers bloodbending wolf-like creatures are sure to disturb PETA, though I’m pretty confident no actual wolf-like creatures were harmed.) Driven by his lust for revenge, Yakone forced the brothers to bloodbend each other for practice; in disgust, Amon rebelled and ran away, nursing a hatred of bending while also showing a rare gift for it.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">After hearing that family history, Korra and Mako decide to go to an equalist rally to expose Amon as a bender. It’s on.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In the second part of the two-part finale, titled “Endgame,” Iroh, Bolin, and Asami find Hiroshi’s secret airfield. They are captured by Hiroshi who boasts that he knows where the rest of the United Forces’ fleet is hiding.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Meanwhile, at the rally, Amon tells the crowd the lie that he was attacked by a firebender as a child. Korra announces the truth to the assembled mob, but, to bolster his case, Amon removes his mask to display what seems to be a horrible burn scar. It’s a move that evokes Darth Vader in “Star Wars” and the masked revolutionary in “V for Vendetta.” Amon then springs the fact that he has imprisoned Tenzin and his family–the last airbenders. Provoked, Korra attacks and frees Tenzin and his kids.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In a duel, Amon strips Korra of her bending, and then moves to do the same to Mako. Korra soon finds that stripped of her other skills, and fueled by her desperation to save her friend, she can airbend–”I can airbend? I can airbend!” she shouts– and she knocks Amon out of the building and into the nearby water.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">His empty mask surfaces, bobbing on the water.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Amon comes to under the waves, and instinctively jets to the surface where a crowd sees him using his waterbending skills; his fake scar has also been washed away along with any hope of passing himself off as an anti-bending rebel. Amon swims off, and the revolution is shown to be a fraud.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Near the airfield, Iroh heroically takes out some of the equalist planes, and forces one to run into the huge statue of Aang, whose head had been covered up by an Amon-style mask. The crashing plane knocks off the mask.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“Thanks for looking out for me Aang,” Iroh says to the statue.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">In a scene that conjures up the exosuit battle scenes in James Cameron’s movies “Aliens” and “Avatar” (the one with the 3-D blue creatures, not “Avatar: The Last Airbender”!), Asami and her father fight while in hulking Future Industries gear. “Mr. Sato, you are a horrible father!” Bolin declares, just before helping Asami to bring the industrialist down.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">On the run, or rather on the swim, Amon goes to see his imprisoned brother, seemingly convinces him to give brotherhood another shot, and the two head off in a boat together–but Tarrlok blows it up, apparently killing them both. In this mob drama, Fredo fights back.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Katara tries to heal the benders who have lost their powers, but it’s beyond even her formidable talents. The Avatar is inconsolable–are you really the Avatar when you’ve lost the ability to bend three elements?–but Mako tries to console her, and winds up confessing his love. Now she feels even worse and runs off into the frozen waste.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Leaning over the edge of a massive frozen glacier, sobbing, she sheds a tear that falls past the cold cliff walls below.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">She senses someone approaching.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“Not now Tenzin, I just want to be left alone,” she cries.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“But you called me here.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Surprise. It’s not Tenzin.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“Aang?” Korra asks.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“You have finally connected with your spiritual self,” Aang says.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“How?”</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change,” he replies.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">(So true. As Lao Tse once said, “Failure is an opportunity.” And as LeBron said this week, after losing the championship last year and winning it this year, “It’s about damn time.”)</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The other Avatars appear beside Aang, and Korra, eyes glowing, enters the Avatar state.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">(“I was so glad when her eyes finally glowed like that,” my seven year old daughter said.)</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The music swells and Korra levitates as the elements swirl around her. She has her mystical moment, and then floats back to earth as her boots touch the ice again.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Mako approaches.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“I love you too, ” she says, and kisses him.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">As LeBron might say, it’s about darn time.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Returning to the others, Korra uses her power to heal Lin Beifong and bring back her bending. The Avatar has returned, and she’s going to bring balance to the world.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">“I am so proud of you–Avatar Korra,” Tenzin says.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">The student is now the master.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">What did you think of the finale? Leave your thoughts in the comments.</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">For more go to:</p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/06/19/the-legend-of-korra-creators-preview-the-finale/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); outline: none; border-bottom-style: none !important; ">‘The Legend of Korra’ Creators Preview the Season Finale</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/06/22/the-legend-of-korra-creators-answer-your-questions/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); outline: none; border-bottom-style: none !important; ">‘The Legend of Korra’ Creators Answer Your Questions</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 8px 1em; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; ">Follow me on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/cjfarley" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); outline: none; border-bottom-style: none !important; ">@cjfarley</a></p></div></div><div class="postcats" style="margin: 0px 0px 21px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em; background-image: url(http://s.wsj.net/img/dotted_grey.gif); clear: both; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px; list-style: none; background-image: url(http://s.wsj.net/img/dotted_grey.gif); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; display: inline; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/tag/avatar-the-last-airbender/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none; ">Avatar: The Last Airbender</a>, </li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; display: inline; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/tag/feature/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none; ">Feature</a>, </li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; display: inline; "><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/tag/the-legend-of-korra/" rel="tag" style="color: rgb(0, 158, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none; ">The Legend of Korra</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-26956666799413487402012-06-26T11:26:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:26:44.844-07:00Miami Heat’s LeBron James had to reinvent himself to become a champion<h1 class="storyHeadline entry-title" style="margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 28px; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(26, 39, 47); display: inline; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Miami Heat’s LeBron James had to reinvent himself to become a champion</h1><span style="color: rgb(26, 39, 50); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><div class="facebook_like_small" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; clear: right; height: 30px; width: 90px; color: rgb(26, 39, 50); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><fb:like href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/23/2863996/miami-heats-lebron-james-had-to.html#storylink=fbuser" layout="button_count" show_faces="false" action="like" font="arial" colorscheme="light" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "></fb:like></div><span style="color: rgb(26, 39, 50); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></span><div class="story_headline_separator cf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; height: 10px; color: rgb(26, 39, 50); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> </div><h2 class="subheadline" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); font-weight: lighter; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The pain of last year’s Finals loss to the Mavericks pushed LeBron James to make drastic changes on an off the court. The result: His first NBA championship.</h2><div id="storyRail" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 39, 50); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="assetsWrapper" style="margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; padding: 5px; display: inline; float: left; overflow: visible; border: 1px solid rgb(147, 148, 149); background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); clear: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div id="storyAssets" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 316px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); overflow: hidden; "><div id="storyAssetMediaDisplayArea" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><div id="storyPhotoGalleryContentArea" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><div class="storyAssetSingle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "></div></div><div id="storyPhotoContentArea" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><div class="storyAssetSingle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><div class="image" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; "><img src="http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2012/06/22/21/14/PrrXy.Em.56.jpeg" width="316" height="281" border="0" alt=" Miami Heat's LeBron James, hugs the trophy as they celebrate the championship on stage after winning game 5 of the NBA finals between the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder, at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on Thursday, June 21, 2012. 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font-size: 10px; line-height: 11px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a href="mailto:jgoodman@MiamiHerald.com" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(88, 89, 91); text-decoration: none; line-height: 11px; ">JGOODMAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM</a></h3><div id="storyBodyContent" class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26, 39, 50); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">In his words, LeBron James first had to hit “rock bottom” before he could become a champion.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">Any student of literature will recognize immediately the significance of that journey. If it sounds like a storybook tale, that’s because it is. Written a thousand times over, the hero of an epic novel or poem must first sink into a dark and murky abyss before he can be reborn. Only then can he claim the Holy Grail, or, in this case, the Larry O’Brien Trophy.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">“The best thing that happened to me last year was us losing the Finals,” James said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">James’ personal abyss was the two weeks after the 2011 Finals. He collapsed in failure on the biggest stage. He was humiliated. He retreated from the world and isolated himself in pain. For a fortnight, James didn’t communicate with the outside world. He didn’t shave. He barely had the energy and will to leave his bedroom.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">After his reclusion, James emerged and forced himself to make drastic changes to not only his game but to his personal life as well. James’ transformation as a man and his difficult journey to his first NBA championship made Thursday night’s celebration that much sweeter.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">“It took me to go all the way to the top and then hit rock bottom, basically, to realize what I needed to do as a professional athlete and as a person,” he said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; "><span class="subhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; ">‘BACK TO BASICS’</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">James started his redemptive journey by first surrounding himself with his family. He moved his fiancée and two sons to Miami, which stabilized his home and created a safe haven for himself away from the basketball court.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">Next, James focused on retooling his game. He visited Hakeem Olajuwon, the Hall of Fame center for the Houston Rockets, who offered sage advice about life as well as a few lessons on playing in the post.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">In 2011, James wanted to win for all the wrong reasons. He realized that in the offseason and he adjusted his perspective.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">“All last year I tried to prove people wrong,” James said. “At the end of the day, I was basically fighting against myself.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">Instead of trying to be what his critics wanted him to be – the villain of the NBA – James returned to what he knew, and that was being a great teammate and the game’s most versatile and unselfish superstar. For the Heat in 2012, that meant James needed to attack the basket like he had never done before.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">After the NBA’s lockout, James reported to the Heat’s training camp in incredible shape, prepared physically to withstand the abuse of a condensed 66-game schedule, and he took the league by storm. James’ ultimate goal after the Heat’s crushing defeat in the 2011 Finals was to “get back to basics.” His rededication to the fundamentals of the game was obvious from the first game of the season.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">On Christmas Day in Dallas, James slashed and pounded his way to the basket for 37 points on 11-of-19 shooting. At the All-Star break, James was shooting 54.7 percent from the field, a career-high clip, with the lion’s share of his shots, 38 percent, being attempted within five feet of the basket. His masterful season earned him his third MVP Award.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">“He really took being the best player in the league to another level,” teammate Dwyane Wade said. “And he did it all season, man.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; "><span class="subhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; ">AN INSIDE JOB</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">James focused his game inside at an even greater rate in the final seven games of the playoffs. Beginning with his historic 45-point effort in Game 6 against the Celtics, James scored at least 16 points in the paint in every game for the rest of the postseason. It was the longest such streak for James in his career.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19px; font-size: 14px; ">Of course, scoring is only a small part of James’ game. In the playoffs, he averaged 30.3 points, 9.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists. 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border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); margin: -1px -160px 21px 0px; "><span class="byline-name" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 1.231em; font-weight: bold; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; display: block; padding-bottom: 2px; margin-bottom: 0px; ">By Roland Pease</span><span class="byline-title" style="line-height: 16px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; ">BBC Radio Science Unit</span></span><div class="caption body-narrow-width" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; clear: both; float: right; display: inline; margin: 0px -160px 16px 16px; "><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61091000/jpg/_61091323_61091322.jpg" width="304" height="405" alt="Alan Turing picture" style="line-height: 16px; border: 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-style: italic; " /><span style="line-height: 16px; display: block; width: 304px; ">Turing was found dead in his bed by his housekeeper</span></div><div class="story-feature related narrow" style="line-height: 16px; 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">Is Turing the father of computing?</a></li></ul></div><p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; font-weight: bold; ">Alan Turing, the British mathematical genius and codebreaker born 100 years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; "><a href="http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/general/popularscience/jackcopelandjune" style="color: rgb(74, 113, 148); line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Turing expert Prof Jack Copeland has questioned</a> the evidence that was presented at the 1954 inquest.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">He believes the evidence would not today be accepted as sufficient to establish a suicide verdict.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Indeed, he argues, Turing's death may equally probably have been an accident.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">What is well known and accepted is that Alan Turing died of cyanide poisoning.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">His housekeeper famously found the 41-year-old mathematician dead in his bed, with a half-eaten apple on his bedside table.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">It is widely said that Turing had been haunted by the story of the poisoned apple in the fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and had resorted to the same desperate measure to end the persecution he was suffering as a result of his homosexuality.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">But according to Prof Copeland, it was Turing's habit to take an apple at bedtime, and that it was quite usual for him not to finish it; the half-eaten remains found near his body cannot be seen as an indication of a deliberate act.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Indeed, the police never tested the apple for the presence of cyanide.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Moreover, Prof Copeland emphasises, a coroner these days would demand evidence of pre-meditation before announcing a verdict of suicide, yet nothing in the accounts of Turing's last days suggest he was in anything but a cheerful mood.</p><div class="story-feature narrow" style="line-height: 16px; 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margin: 0px 0px 5px; text-indent: -5000px; ">Start Quote</span></h2><blockquote style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; display: inline; font-weight: bold; "><p class="first-child" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.231em; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; clear: left; ">We have... been recreating the narrative of Turing's life, and we have recreated him as an unhappy young man who committed suicide. But the evidence is not there”</p></blockquote><span class="quote-credit" style="line-height: 16px; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px; clear: both; ">Prof Jack Copeland</span><span class="quote-credit-title" style="line-height: 16px; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 8px; clear: both; ">University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand</span><ul class="links-list" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 7px 0px 0px; list-style: none; clear: both; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); "><li style="line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em; text-rendering: auto; background-image: none; position: relative; "><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17662585" class="quote-link" style="color: rgb(23, 79, 130); line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; ">Alan Turing's genius</a></li></ul></div><p id="story_continues_2" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">He had left a note on his office desk, as was his practice, the previous Friday to remind himself of the tasks to be done on his return after the Bank Holiday weekend.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Nevertheless, at the inquest, the coroner, Mr JAK Ferns declared: "In a man of his type, one never knows what his mental processes are going to do next." What he meant by "of his type" is unclear.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The motive for suicide is easy to imagine. In 1952, after he had reported a petty burglary, Turing found himself being investigated for "acts of gross indecency" after he revealed he had had a male lover in his house.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Faced with the prospect of imprisonment, and perhaps with it the loss of the mathematics post he held at Manchester University, which gave him access to one of the world's only computers, Turing accepted the alternative of "chemical castration" - hormone treatment that was supposed to suppress his sexual urges.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">It is often repeated that the chemicals caused him to grow breasts, though Turing is only known to have mentioned this once.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The authorities' continuing interest in Turing became apparent in 1953 when a gay Norwegian acquaintance, Kjell, announced by postcard his intention to visit him at his Wilmslow home, but mysteriously never arrived.</p><div class="audioInStoryC" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; margin: 0px -160px 16px 16px; float: right; display: inline; clear: both; overflow: hidden; width: 304px; "><div id="emp-18562183-78123" class="emp page-bookmark-link-aware" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; "><object width="0" height="0" style="line-height: 16px; display: block; "></object></div></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Turing told a friend, by way of explanation: "At one stage, the police over the north of England were out searching for him."</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">With six decades of hindsight, these oppressive attentions, the nation's failure to appreciate his wartime contributions, his apparent sidelining at the Manchester computer department, have led to a tragic picture of Turing being hounded during his last years, and suicide being a natural outcome.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">But Prof Copeland argues that on the contrary, Turing's career was at an intellectual high, and that he had borne his treatment "with good humour".</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Of the Kjell affair, Turing had written that "for sheer incident, it rivalled the Arnold [gross-indecency] story"; and immediately after his conviction had told a friend: "The day of the trial was by no means disagreeable.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"Whilst in custody with the other criminals, I had a very agreeable sense of irresponsibility, rather like being back at school."</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">On the face of it, these are not the expressions of someone ground down by adversity.</p><div class="videoInStoryC" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; margin: 0px -160px 16px 16px; float: right; display: inline; clear: both; overflow: hidden; width: 320px; "><div id="emp-18538419-78124" class="emp page-bookmark-link-aware" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; "><object width="0" height="0" style="line-height: 16px; display: block; "></object></div><div class=" bbccom-advert bbccom_visibility_hidden bbccom_companion" id="bbccom_companion_18538419" style="line-height: 16px; height: 0px; visibility: hidden; margin: -1px auto auto; overflow: hidden; width: 300px; "></div><p class="caption" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; margin: 0px -160px 16px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1em; text-rendering: auto; clear: both; position: relative; float: left; width: 320px; ">A centenary celebration at Cambridge University considers Turing's legacy</p></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">What is more, Turing had tolerated the year-long hormone treatment and the terms of his probation ("my shining virtue was terrific") with amused fortitude, and another year had since passed seemingly without incident.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">In statements to the coroner, friends had attested to his good humour in the days before his death.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">His neighbour described him throwing "such a jolly [tea] party" for her and her son four days before he died.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">His close friend Robin Gandy, who had stayed with him the weekend before, said that Turing "seemed, if anything, happier than usual".</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Yet the coroner recorded a verdict of suicide "while the balance of his mind was disturbed".</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Prof Copeland believes the alternative explanation made at the time by Turing's mother is equally likely.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Turing had cyanide in his house for chemical experiments he conducted in his tiny spare room - the nightmare room he had dubbed it.</p><div class="caption body-narrow-width" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; clear: both; float: right; display: inline; margin: 0px -160px 16px 16px; "><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60956000/jpg/_60956830_bombereplica.jpg" width="304" height="220" alt="Bombe machine replica" style="line-height: 16px; border: 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-style: italic; " /><span style="line-height: 16px; display: block; width: 304px; ">Bombe decryption machine: We should focus on Turing's genius, says Prof Copeland</span></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">He had been electrolysing solutions of the poison, and electroplating spoons with gold, a process that requires potassium cyanide. Although famed for his cerebral powers, Turing had also always shown an experimental bent, and these activities were not unusual for him.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">But Turing was careless, Prof Copeland argues.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The electrolysis experiment was wired into the ceiling light socket.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">On another occasion, an experiment had resulted in severe electric shocks.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">And he was known for tasting chemicals to identify them.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Perhaps he had accidentally put his apple into a puddle of cyanide.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Or perhaps, more likely, he had accidentally inhaled cyanide vapours from the bubbling liquid.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">Prof Copeland notes that the nightmare room had a "strong smell" of cyanide after Turing's death; that inhalation leads to a slower death than ingestion; and that the distribution of the poison in Turing's organs was more consistent with inhalation than with ingestion.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">In his authoritative biography, Andrew Hodges suggests that the experiment was a ruse to disguise suicide, a scenario Turing had apparently mentioned to a friend in the past.</p><div class="caption" style="line-height: 16px; position: relative; clear: both; float: right; display: inline; margin: 0px -160px 16px 16px; "><img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60922000/jpg/_60922341_stilb.jpg" width="226" height="300" alt="Stilboestrol tablets" style="line-height: 16px; border: 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-style: italic; " /><span style="line-height: 16px; display: block; width: 226px; ">Turing was injected with Stilboestrol - a synthesised form of oestrogen</span></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">But Jack Copeland argues the evidence should be taken at face value - that an accidental death is certainly consistent with all the currently known circumstances.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">The problem, he complains, is that the investigation was conducted so poorly that even murder cannot be ruled out. An "open verdict", recognising this degree of ignorance, would be his preferred position.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">None of this excuses the treatment of Turing during his final years, says Prof Copeland.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"Turing was hounded," he told the BBC, adding: "Yet he remained cheerful and humorous."</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"The thing is to tell the truth in so far as we know it, and not to speculate.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"In a way we have in modern times been recreating the narrative of Turing's life, and we have recreated him as an unhappy young man who committed suicide. But the evidence is not there.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"The exact circumstances of Turing's death will probably always be unclear," Prof Copeland concludes.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; ">"Perhaps we should just shrug our shoulders, and focus on Turing's life and extraordinary work."</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; "><em style="line-height: 16px; ">Roland Pease has produced two episodes of Discovery on the BBC World Service devoted to Turing. </em><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jqjl5" style="color: rgb(74, 113, 148); line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">In the first</a><em style="line-height: 16px; 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color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; "><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><td id="horizontal-reaction2-left" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div id="horizontal-reaction2-left_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 20px; line-height: 20px; position: static; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction2-icon" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); zoom: 1; text-align: left; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div id="horizontal-reaction2-tumblr_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 16px; line-height: 16px; position: static; background-position: -78px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction2-text" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div class="gig-button-text gig-share-button-text" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; ">Tumblr</div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction2-right" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div id="horizontal-reaction2-right_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 20px; line-height: 20px; position: static; background-position: -4px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td><td style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; zoom: 1; "><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-none gig-button-container-digg gig-button-container-digg-count-none gig-share-button-container" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-none" id="horizontal-reaction3" title="" alt="" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; cursor: pointer; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; "><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><td id="horizontal-reaction3-left" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div id="horizontal-reaction3-left_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 20px; line-height: 20px; position: static; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction3-icon" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); zoom: 1; text-align: left; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div id="horizontal-reaction3-digg_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 16px; line-height: 16px; position: static; background-position: -94px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction3-text" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div class="gig-button-text gig-share-button-text" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; ">Digg</div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction3-right" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div id="horizontal-reaction3-right_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 20px; line-height: 20px; position: static; background-position: -4px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td><td style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; zoom: 1; "><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-none gig-button-container-reddit gig-button-container-reddit-count-none gig-share-button-container" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-none" id="horizontal-reaction4" title="" alt="" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; cursor: pointer; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); background-image: none; "><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><td id="horizontal-reaction4-left" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div id="horizontal-reaction4-left_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 20px; line-height: 20px; position: static; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction4-icon" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); zoom: 1; text-align: left; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div id="horizontal-reaction4-reddit_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 16px; line-height: 16px; position: static; background-position: -110px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction4-text" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/i/shareBar/button/buttonCenterImgUp.png); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><div class="gig-button-text gig-share-button-text" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; ">Reddit</div></td><td id="horizontal-reaction4-right" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div id="horizontal-reaction4-right_img" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2px; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: url(http://cdn.gigya.com/gs/GetSprite.ashx?path=%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2Fbutton%5Bleft%2Cright%5DImg%5Bup%2Cover%5D.png%7C2%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Fbutton%2FrightCountImg.png%7C38%2C20%5E%2FshareBar%2Ficons%2F%5Bgoogle-plusone%2Cstumbleupon%2Ctumblr%2Cdigg%2Creddit%2Cemail%5D.png%7C16%2C16); height: 20px; line-height: 20px; position: static; background-position: -4px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td><td style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; zoom: 1; "><div class="gig-button-container gig-button-container-count-none gig-button-container-email gig-button-container-email-count-none gig-share-button-container" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; "><div class="gig-button gig-share-button gig-button-up gig-button-count-none" id="horizontal-reaction5" title="" alt="" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; background-image: none; cursor: pointer; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: auto; float: none; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; 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When you could really make good use of it, especially during the strength of your youth, you have very little. Youth too is funny, because when you have the strength to change the world, you lack the wisdom.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">Between the strength of youth and wisdom of age, lies a no-man's land called generation gap, where people have fought since the beginning of human civilization.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">'Brave' is a film situated in that place, trying to decimate fences on both sides of the warring parties in a fun, light-hearted and poignant way.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">Merida (Kelly Macdonald), a young princess in a kingdom ruled by tradition, dislikes her mother who's perennially trying to wean her away from her archery and horse riding into more ladylike pursuits. She evokes a spell to change her mother not realising that it will literally change her physical appearance.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">Mother-daughter must come to resolve their differences if the queen has to convert back. 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The brilliant animation work works only to complement a well thought out and written screenplay, which in the tradition of children's art entertains kids as much as it enlightens them. And at the end, there's a lesson for everyone to take home and ponder - young and old alike.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">The lesson is simple. It is not that parents are always right and kids always wrong. There's a middle ground where both generations can coexist and thrive.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">'Brave' delivers a moral without letting the moral out. It teaches not just kids to listen to parents, but parents to be wise enough to listen to their kids and accommodate their strengths and enthusiasm into their wisdom. 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2857em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Division I-A</h3><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; background-image: url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/bullet4x4.gif); padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; background-position: 0% 0.45em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><a href="http://nytimes.stats.com/cfb/scoreboards.asp" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; ">This Week's Games</a></li><li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; background-image: url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/bullet4x4.gif); padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; background-position: 0% 0.45em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><a href="http://nytimes.stats.com/cfb/polls.asp" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; ">A.P. and Coaches' Polls</a></li><li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; 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I-A Teams</a></li></ul><h3 class="sectionHeader" style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2857em; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Division I-AA</h3><ul style="margin: 0px; list-style: none; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.25em; background-image: url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/bullet4x4.gif); padding: 0px 0px 0px 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-position: 0% 0.45em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "><a href="http://nytimes.stats.com/cfb/scoreboards.asp?conf=1aa%3A999&week=02&submit1=Go" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; ">Scores</a> | <a href="http://nytimes.stats.com/cfb/teams.asp" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; ">Teams</a> | <a href="http://nytimes.stats.com/cfb/polls.asp?div=1aa&week=00" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; font-size: 1em; ">Polls</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="articleBody" style="margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.7em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">“He knew it was true,” Harper, a high school chemistry teacher here, said as his 2-year-old son and his 4- and 5-year-old daughters played on the floor of their home Saturday morning. “It made me feel confident that we made the right decision.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">For two weeks, Harper, a graduate of Penn State and a juror in Sandusky’s trial, heard in disturbing detail how one of his alma mater’s most famous graduates had preyed on and molested 10 boys as he was simultaneously building a charity and a reputation as a pillar of a tight-knit community where football and family were highly valued.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">On Friday, Sandusky, 68, spent the first night of what is expected to be the rest of his life behind bars. He will be sentenced within 90 days, his fate rigidly mapped out and only at the mercy of the state’s justice system.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">In the meantime, Sandusky will be examined by the state Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, which will determine whether he is a violent sexual predator. He will very likely be isolated from other prisoners for his protection until Judge John Cleland reviews the reports and settles on a sentence.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Then Sandusky will be transferred to the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill, in south-central Pennsylvania, which holds up to 4,000 inmates, a quarter of them classified as temporary.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Harper said there was little debate and even less doubt in the jury room about Sandusky’s guilt. As emotional and wrenching as the accounts were from the eight victims who testified, Harper said the grimmest and most significant testimony came from Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant, who said he interrupted a sexual assault by his former coach against a young boy in the showers at the university’s football center.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">“It was just eye-opening on all the things that happened because we got a whole lot of detail on what Sandusky was doing,” Harper said.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">While Sandusky’s future appears predestined, the fates of Penn State, its vaunted football program and some of its current and past officials will be determined after a number of investigations.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">There are federal investigations into a possible cover-up by Penn State and the charity Sandusky founded, the Second Mile. The university’s board of trustees has hired the former F.B.I. director Louis J. Freeh to look into the mistakes made in the wake of Sandusky’s crimes and to propose remedies.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The N.C.A.A. and the Big Ten Conference are investigating whether the athletic department had lost institutional control and whether there were more violations of ethical conduct and compliance. Two fired administrators — Tim Curley and Gary Schultz — have been accused of lying to a grand jury about the sexual assault witnessed by McQueary.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Then there are the numerous civil suits from Sandusky’s victims that Penn State has acknowledged are coming.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">“The university plans to invite victims of Mr. Sandusky’s abuse to participate in a program to facilitate the resolution of claims against the university arising out of Mr. Sandusky’s conduct,” Penn State said in a statement late Friday. “The purpose of the program is simple — the university wants to provide a forum where the university can privately, expeditiously and fairly address the victims’ concerns and compensate them for claims relating to the university.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">One of the plaintiffs could be Matt Sandusky, an adopted son of the coach, who came forward in the final days of the trial and offered to testify that Jerry Sandusky had abused him. Matt Sandusky was never called to testify, but Jerry Sandusky’s lead lawyer, Joseph Amendola, conceded that the disclosure had kept his client off the witness stand.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Although the jury did not hear that Matt Sandusky had joined the list of accusers until after the verdict, Harper said it was a unifying moment for the jury’s seven women and five men, who had decided early not to exchange last names or contact information.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">“That was total confirmation that we made the right decision,” Harper said. “That was very important for me because I don’t have to question my decision.”</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">On the day after a conviction was announced against one of the most high-profile pedophiles in recent times, there seemed to be little doubt in this corner of the world known as Happy Valley that the right verdict had been rendered.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Still, it did not mean anyone was happy about it.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">It was a somber afternoon on campus, especially at Paterno Library, named for Penn State’s iconic coach, Joe Paterno. He had known of at least one of the instances of abuse and was found to have failed to act properly and was fired. Two months later, he died from lung cancer.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Six people politely declined to talk about the months since scandal gripped their community.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">“There’s been too much sadness,” said a female graduate student who did not want to give her name.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Fifty yards from the Centre County Courthouse a life-size cutout of Paterno filled a storefront. Across the street from where Harper and his fellow jurors found Sandusky guilty, a banner advertised memorabilia signed by Paterno.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Shana Stamm, a 27-year-old home care aide, remembered how classes at her elementary school were once suspended for an afternoon so Sandusky could give a motivational speech. She remembered how many of her classmates raised money for the Second Mile.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">“It’s devastating for this whole community,” she said. “He turned out to be such an evil man.”</p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-46027180762791497352012-06-26T11:23:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:23:57.516-07:00Summer solstice 2012: Longest day of year - how does daylight compare around the world?<div id="entryhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; "><h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="entry-title">Summer solstice 2012: Longest day of year - how does daylight compare around the world?</span></h1><div class="blog-byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: italic; ">By <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/justin-grieser/2011/10/18/gIQAGEZFvL_page.html" rel="author" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Justin Grieser</a></span></div></div><div id="entrytext" class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><span class="imgfull" style="float: left; width: 454px; margin: 4px 10px 10px 0px; "><img border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/capital-weather-gang/201206/images/solstice%20global%20(without%20title).jpg?uuid=iMoOGrrXEeGr1K7MgbRGbQ" width="454" style="border: 0px; " /><br /><span class="blog_caption" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; ">Sunrise and sunset times in major world cities on the summer solstice. While locations in the Northern Hemisphere have their longest daylight period, cities in the Southern Hemisphere such as Sydney, Australia have their shortest. (Data source: timeanddate.com)</span></span>If you’ve enjoyed these bright, sun-filled evenings for an outdoor barbecue or a neighborhood stroll, the summer solstice tonight marks the culmination of our long-lasting daylight.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><b>At 7:09 p.m. (EDT) today</b>, the sun will shine <a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/bmendez/ay10/2002/notes/pics/bt2lfS122_a.jpg" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">directly overhead</a> at the Tropic of Cancer while the North Pole reaches its maximum tilt towards the sun. For the Northern Hemisphere, this marks the <b>official start of summer</b> and the longest day of the year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><span class="imgright" style="float: right; width: 228px; margin: 4px 0px 10px 10px; "><img border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/capital-weather-gang/201206/images/Earth%20diagram%20solstice.jpg?uuid=iS9FoLrXEeGr1K7MgbRGbQ" width="228" style="border: 0px; " /><br /><span class="blog_caption" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; ">On the summer solstice, Earth’s northern hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt towards the sun. Locations north of the Arctic Circle experience 24 hours of daylight. <a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://scijinks.nasa.gov/_media/en/site/solstice/summer-solstice.jpg" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">See larger image</a>. (NOAA)</span></span>On the summer solstice in Washington, D.C., the sun rises in the northeastern sky at 5:43 a.m. and remains above the horizon for nearly 15 hours before setting to the northwest at 8:37 p.m. With morning<a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight#Civil_twilight" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">civil twilight</a> beginning at 5:11 a.m. and evening twilight stretching until 9:09 p.m., we get nearly 16 hours of daylight to enjoy. On the longest day of the year the sun also reaches its highest point in the sky at solar noon (1:10 p.m. in D.C.) so remember to use plenty of sunscreen when outdoors.</p><a name="pagebreak" style="text-decoration: underline; "></a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><b>Relationship between latitude, sun angle, and day length</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; ">Since day length depends on latitude, northern cities like New York and Chicago see the sun above the horizon for more than 15 hours. At lower latitudes the amount of daylight is shorter but the sun climbs higher in the sky. So while cities like Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles have somewhat shorter days during summer, the midday sun there is also more intense.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><b>Related: </b><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/the-summer-solstice--and-other-interesting-sun-facts--explained/2011/06/21/AGTWNPeH_blog.html" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">The summer solstice - and other interesting sun facts - explained</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><span class="imgfull" style="float: left; width: 454px; margin: 4px 10px 10px 0px; "><img border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/capital-weather-gang/201206/images/U.S.%20solstice%20(without%20title).jpg?uuid=iIaBXrrXEeGr1K7MgbRGbQ" width="454" style="border: 0px; " /><br /><span class="blog_caption" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; ">Sunrise and sunset times on the summer solstice. Day length refers to the elapsed time from sunrise to sunset, not including twilight. (Data source: timeanddate.com)</span></span>Consider Miami, where the sun is up for less than 14 hours but climbs to a height of 87.7º above the horizon by midday. Just to the south and very close to the Tropic of Cancer, Key West, Fl., sees the midday sun shine almost directly overhead at local noon.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; ">As one moves north from the tropics towards the North Pole, the sun stays above the horizon longer but is also noticeably lower in the sky. At nearly 65ºN latitude, residents of Fairbanks, Alaska see the sun <a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://www.hsphys.com/dayinb.jpg" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">circle the sky</a> for nearly 23 hours in mid-June. Yet even on the longest day of the year the sun shines at a very low 48.6º declination during midday. At this time of year areas along and north of the Arctic Circle experience <a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">24-hour daylight</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><b>The summer solstice in other cities around the world</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; ">Much of the continental U.S. enjoys 14 to 16 hours of daylight on the summer solstice, but how do other major world cities compare? Many cities in East Asia, such as Tokyo and Beijing, are at about the same latitude and have similar periods of sunlight. Other places – notably in Europe – get considerably more daylight than even the northernmost metropolitan areas of the mainland United States.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; ">Across the Atlantic in London, for example, the sun stays above the horizon for well over 16 hours – from before 5 a.m. until after 9 p.m. Factor in the amount of light from dawn until dusk and the period of visible light extends beyond 18 hours. The graph below compares the day length and twilight duration of a handful of cities in the Northern Hemisphere. Note that locations in higher latitudes have not only longer days but also much longer periods of twilight (<a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://individual.utoronto.ca/kalendis/twilight/MST.pdf" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">see graphical comparison</a>).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><span class="imgfull" style="float: left; width: 454px; margin: 4px 10px 10px 0px; "><img border="0" align="bottom" src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/capital-weather-gang/201206/images/Hours%20of%20visible%20light.jpg?uuid=iOm7_LrXEeGr1K7MgbRGbQ" width="454" style="border: 0px; " /><br /><span class="blog_caption" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; ">The amount of visible light on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Day length refers to the period from sunrise to sunset. Civil twilight refers to the time before sunrise and after sunset when the sun is 6º or less below the horizon. (Data source: timeanddate.com)</span></span>Despite these regional differences in day length and sun intensity, sky observers around the world can admire the June solstice for signaling a turning point in the seasons. Going forward, the days become shorter in the Northern Hemisphere while our Southern Hemisphere neighbors can look forward to more daylight. While northern locations are seeing a lot of sunlight now, it will be quite a different story six months from now. As the saying goes, what goes up must come down…</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><b>Additional reading</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunrises-before-june-solstice-jupiter-venus" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Why the earliest sunrise is before the June solstice</a> (EarthSky.org)<br /><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?n=263&month=6&day=20&year=2012&hour=19&min=8&sec=0" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Day and night world map</a> (timeanddate.com)</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><i>More from Capital Weather Gang</i></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/spring-equinox-marks-the-official-end-of-winter-early-tuesday-morning/2012/03/19/gIQAaaYyMS_blog.html" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Spring Equinox 2012</a><br /><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/winter-solstice-marks-the-shortest-day-of-the-year-thursday-morning/2011/12/21/gIQANxaG9O_blog.html" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Winter Solstice 2011</a><br /><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/autumnal-equinox-marks-the-official-start-of-fall-friday-morning/2011/09/22/gIQAlOvEoK_blog.html" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Autumn Equinox 2011</a><br /><a target="_blank" xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/the-summer-solstice--and-other-interesting-sun-facts--explained/2011/06/21/AGTWNPeH_blog.html" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Summer Solstice 2011</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-family: times; width: auto; "></p><div class="fb-like" href="https://www.facebook.com/capitalweather" send="true" width="454" faces="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "></div></div><p class="posted" style="margin: 0px; padding: 7px 7px 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: times; font-weight: bold; width: auto; clear: both; border-bottom-style: none; ">By <span class="author vcard"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/justin-grieser/2011/10/18/gIQAGEZFvL_page.html" rel="author" style="color: rgb(12, 71, 144); ">Justin Grieser</a></span> | <span class="updated" title="">09:20 AM ET, 06/20/2012</span> </p>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-15700824568908729652012-06-26T11:20:00.002-07:002012-06-26T11:22:20.044-07:00Ann Curry’s exit from ‘Today’ show: What the future holds for both the network and television personality<div class="story-headers" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; clear: both; height: auto !important; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h1 class="story-header" itemprop="headline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Ann Curry’s exit from ‘Today’ show: What the future holds for both the network and television personality </h1><h2 class="story-subheader" itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Will NBC promote Savannah Guthrie or Natalie Morales? Or will net look outside for a bigger name for Matt Lauer's next co-host? Morning new landscape will be altered by their decison.</h2><a id="commentsTab-1523816" class="goto-comments" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/ann-curry-exit-today-show-future-holds-network-television-personality-article-1.1100675#commentpostform" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; font-family: Geogria; font-size: 12px; display: block; cursor: pointer; ">Comments</a><h3 class="byline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">BY <a rel="author" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Ethan%20Sacks" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; "><span itemprop="name" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">ETHAN SACKS</span></a> / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h3><h5 class="dates" itemprop="datePublished" content="2012-06-22T13:43:19" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">Published: Friday, June 22, 2012, 1:43 PM</h5><h5 class="dates" itemprop="dateModified" content="2012-06-25T11:44:13" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">Updated: Monday, June 25, 2012, 11:44 AM</h5></div><div class="story-share" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="static" id="static_gig_containerParent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; height: auto !important; "><div id="static" gigid="showShareBarUI" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; height: 38px; visibility: visible; "><div class="gig-bar-container gig-share-bar-container" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; 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margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img title=" NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Ann Curry attends the 20th Anniversary of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee at Paley Center For Media on October 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon) " height="425" itemprop="contentUrl" alt=" NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Ann Curry attends the 20th Anniversary of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee at Paley Center For Media on October 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon) " width="635" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1100674.1340387896!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; " /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; ">LARRY BUSACCA/GETTY IMAGES</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Ann Curry attends the 20th Anniversary of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee at Paley Center For Media on October 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)</h4></div><div class="story-rail p402_hide" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; width: 200px; float: right; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="a8bfe21d-bfdb-a084-8132-4bdf9a4077b0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "></div></div><div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><a title="Ann Curry" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Ann+Curry" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; ">Ann Curry</a> is still the co-host of NBC's "Today" show, but speculation continues to mount over who will be sitting in her anchor seat in the not too distant future.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">So what's next for the network and for the 55-year-old news vet?<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">News that Curry's days were numbered on her "dream job" broke Wednesday. A New York Times report surfaced that secret meetings had been taking place between NBC and her lawyer to push her into a different role just over a year after she replaced outgoing Meredith Vieira as co-host.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/ann-curry-soldiers-today-show-wake-reports-impending-exit-article-1.1100065" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">RELATED: ANN SOLDIERS ON AMID REPORTS OF OUSTER</strong></a></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/ann-curry-bumped-nbc-today-show-year-reports-article-1.1099457" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">RELATED: REPORTS SAY CURRY TO LOSE 'TODAY' CO-HOST GIG</strong></a></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Curry, it seems, is taking the hit for the ratings slide that saw the once unbeatable morning program lose the number 1 spot in the ratings to ABC's "Good Morning America" for several weeks.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">"The 'Today' show has been on top for a long, long time and its really being threatened and 'GMA' has overtaken it a few times recently, you look at variables that have changed, and the most obvious is cohost," says Robert Thompson, the founding director of Syracuse University's Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">For Curry, returning to her previous position as a news reader on the show -- a job she held since she joined the show in 1997 until last year - wouldn't be a step back for her career, says Bill Carroll, VP director of programming for the Katz Television Group.</p><div class="story-img" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><div class="story-img" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"Her role in the news division will probably be similar to what it was before on 'Today' - special reports, a special correspondent title," he says. "That's quite probable that that's going to happen. They'll be playing to their strengths. Her field reporting has always been excellent, that's the area where they can best use her talents.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">"If you're doing hard reporting, and you're good at it is that moving backwards? Not everyone wants to do a cooking segment or interview Tom Cruise for the 15th time."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><img alt="curry" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1100075!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; border: 0px; width: 635px; " /></p><h4 class="credit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; ">NBC</h4><h4 class="caption" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-weight: normal; ">In an unfortunate piece of timing, a scrawl reading, 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,' runs across the bottom of Thursday's telecast as Curry is talking to actor Steve Carell.</h4></div></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Regardless of what position she ends up with, she will end up with a nice financial cushion to ease the fall. NBC signed her to a three year deal, worth $10 million annually when she took the co-anchor post in 2011, TMZ reported.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">As for the network, with the behind-the-scenes soap opera now out in the public, there is pressure to find an on-air partner for Matt Lauer - and soon. With the network broadcasting the London Olympics this summer, there won't be a better high-profile stage to show off a new co-host.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">It's a decision that NBC can not afford to get wrong.</p><div class="story-img" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><img alt="CURRY23F_2_WEB" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1100673!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; border: 0px; width: 635px; " /><h4 class="credit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; ">RICHARD CORKERY/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h4><h4 class="caption" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-weight: normal; ">Savannah Guthrie is one of the favorites to be the next 'Today' co-host.</h4></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Experts say there are three paths the network can take in finding Curry's replacement, assuming NBC will stick to the proven one male host, one female host formula.:</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">* Select from in-house.</strong></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Bringing back Vieira would be the safest choice, but sources close to the Dateline NBC contributor told TMZ that she wouldn't consider a return to "Today" full-time.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">That would leave Savannah Guthrie, who fills in for Curry on "Today" already, as the odds-on favorite.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Another in-house candidate is Natalie Morales, who replaced Curry as newsreader.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"Each of them has shown their competency in being able to fill in when someone's not there," says Carroll. "In essence, the network has already done a test drive, so they already know what's there."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">* Signing a big name to make a splash.</strong></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Imagine the benefit of hypothetically signing a celebrity like Maria Menounos, who's already in the NBC family and a household name from "Dancing With the Stars."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">CNN’s Brooke Baldwin isn’t a huge name - yet - but does have a good range of knowledge of both news and pop culture.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"You could sign a rockstar, someone who will get lots and lots of attention to watch the first episode," says Thompson. "But when Katie Couric and Matt Lauer first started on the 'Today' show, neither of them were rockstars.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"The next legacy host of that franchise could very likely be someone we've never heard of."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">* Take a chance on an unknown.</strong></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Right now, it's a good bet that NBC is looking at footage of every anchor in every network affiliate to see if there is untapped talent ready for a national stage.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Before Couric jumped to "Today," she was a reporter for WTVJ in Miami.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"This is showbiz, not science, it's alchemy not chemistry," says Thompson. "If there were a right answer, every show would be a hit."</p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396789431793395192.post-34189543860496673452012-06-26T11:20:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:22:13.602-07:00Ann Curry’s exit from ‘Today’ show: What the future holds for both the network and television personality<div class="story-headers" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; clear: both; height: auto !important; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><h1 class="story-header" itemprop="headline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 28px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); ">Ann Curry’s exit from ‘Today’ show: What the future holds for both the network and television personality </h1><h2 class="story-subheader" itemprop="alternativeHeadline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Will NBC promote Savannah Guthrie or Natalie Morales? Or will net look outside for a bigger name for Matt Lauer's next co-host? Morning new landscape will be altered by their decison.</h2><a id="commentsTab-1523816" class="goto-comments" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/ann-curry-exit-today-show-future-holds-network-television-personality-article-1.1100675#commentpostform" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; font-family: Geogria; font-size: 12px; display: block; cursor: pointer; ">Comments</a><h3 class="byline" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">BY <a rel="author" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Ethan%20Sacks" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; "><span itemprop="name" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">ETHAN SACKS</span></a> / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h3><h5 class="dates" itemprop="datePublished" content="2012-06-22T13:43:19" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">Published: Friday, June 22, 2012, 1:43 PM</h5><h5 class="dates" itemprop="dateModified" content="2012-06-25T11:44:13" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">Updated: Monday, June 25, 2012, 11:44 AM</h5></div><div class="story-share" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div class="static" id="static_gig_containerParent" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; height: auto !important; "><div id="static" gigid="showShareBarUI" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; height: 38px; visibility: visible; "><div class="gig-bar-container gig-share-bar-container" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; 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margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><img title=" NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Ann Curry attends the 20th Anniversary of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee at Paley Center For Media on October 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon) " height="425" itemprop="contentUrl" alt=" NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Ann Curry attends the 20th Anniversary of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee at Paley Center For Media on October 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon) " width="635" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1100674.1340387896!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; " /><h4 class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; ">LARRY BUSACCA/GETTY IMAGES</h4><h4 class="caption" itemprop="description" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); ">NEW YORK - OCTOBER 13: Ann Curry attends the 20th Anniversary of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee at Paley Center For Media on October 13, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)</h4></div><div class="story-rail p402_hide" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; width: 200px; float: right; color: rgb(57, 57, 57); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div id="a8bfe21d-bfdb-a084-8132-4bdf9a4077b0" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "></div></div><div class="story-body p402_premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><a title="Ann Curry" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Ann+Curry" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; ">Ann Curry</a> is still the co-host of NBC's "Today" show, but speculation continues to mount over who will be sitting in her anchor seat in the not too distant future.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">So what's next for the network and for the 55-year-old news vet?<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">News that Curry's days were numbered on her "dream job" broke Wednesday. A New York Times report surfaced that secret meetings had been taking place between NBC and her lawyer to push her into a different role just over a year after she replaced outgoing Meredith Vieira as co-host.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/ann-curry-soldiers-today-show-wake-reports-impending-exit-article-1.1100065" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">RELATED: ANN SOLDIERS ON AMID REPORTS OF OUSTER</strong></a></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/ann-curry-bumped-nbc-today-show-year-reports-article-1.1099457" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(1, 95, 182); text-decoration: none; outline: none 0px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">RELATED: REPORTS SAY CURRY TO LOSE 'TODAY' CO-HOST GIG</strong></a></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Curry, it seems, is taking the hit for the ratings slide that saw the once unbeatable morning program lose the number 1 spot in the ratings to ABC's "Good Morning America" for several weeks.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">"The 'Today' show has been on top for a long, long time and its really being threatened and 'GMA' has overtaken it a few times recently, you look at variables that have changed, and the most obvious is cohost," says Robert Thompson, the founding director of Syracuse University's Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">For Curry, returning to her previous position as a news reader on the show -- a job she held since she joined the show in 1997 until last year - wouldn't be a step back for her career, says Bill Carroll, VP director of programming for the Katz Television Group.</p><div class="story-img" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><div class="story-img" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; "><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"Her role in the news division will probably be similar to what it was before on 'Today' - special reports, a special correspondent title," he says. "That's quite probable that that's going to happen. They'll be playing to their strengths. Her field reporting has always been excellent, that's the area where they can best use her talents.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">"If you're doing hard reporting, and you're good at it is that moving backwards? Not everyone wants to do a cooking segment or interview Tom Cruise for the 15th time."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><img alt="curry" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1100075!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; border: 0px; width: 635px; " /></p><h4 class="credit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; ">NBC</h4><h4 class="caption" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-weight: normal; ">In an unfortunate piece of timing, a scrawl reading, 'Here Today, Gone Tomorrow,' runs across the bottom of Thursday's telecast as Curry is talking to actor Steve Carell.</h4></div></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Regardless of what position she ends up with, she will end up with a nice financial cushion to ease the fall. NBC signed her to a three year deal, worth $10 million annually when she took the co-anchor post in 2011, TMZ reported.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">As for the network, with the behind-the-scenes soap opera now out in the public, there is pressure to find an on-air partner for Matt Lauer - and soon. With the network broadcasting the London Olympics this summer, there won't be a better high-profile stage to show off a new co-host.<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; "><br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">It's a decision that NBC can not afford to get wrong.</p><div class="story-img" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; width: 635px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); "><img alt="CURRY23F_2_WEB" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1100673!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/image.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px; border: 0px; width: 635px; " /><h4 class="credit" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase; ">RICHARD CORKERY/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</h4><h4 class="caption" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; font-weight: normal; ">Savannah Guthrie is one of the favorites to be the next 'Today' co-host.</h4></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Experts say there are three paths the network can take in finding Curry's replacement, assuming NBC will stick to the proven one male host, one female host formula.:</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">* Select from in-house.</strong></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Bringing back Vieira would be the safest choice, but sources close to the Dateline NBC contributor told TMZ that she wouldn't consider a return to "Today" full-time.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">That would leave Savannah Guthrie, who fills in for Curry on "Today" already, as the odds-on favorite.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Another in-house candidate is Natalie Morales, who replaced Curry as newsreader.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"Each of them has shown their competency in being able to fill in when someone's not there," says Carroll. "In essence, the network has already done a test drive, so they already know what's there."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">* Signing a big name to make a splash.</strong></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Imagine the benefit of hypothetically signing a celebrity like Maria Menounos, who's already in the NBC family and a household name from "Dancing With the Stars."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">CNN’s Brooke Baldwin isn’t a huge name - yet - but does have a good range of knowledge of both news and pop culture.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"You could sign a rockstar, someone who will get lots and lots of attention to watch the first episode," says Thompson. "But when Katie Couric and Matt Lauer first started on the 'Today' show, neither of them were rockstars.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"The next legacy host of that franchise could very likely be someone we've never heard of."</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; ">* Take a chance on an unknown.</strong></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Right now, it's a good bet that NBC is looking at footage of every anchor in every network affiliate to see if there is untapped talent ready for a national stage.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">Before Couric jumped to "Today," she was a reporter for WTVJ in Miami.</p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; ">"This is showbiz, not science, it's alchemy not chemistry," says Thompson. "If there were a right answer, every show would be a hit."</p></div>For Adsene googlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422291300950824034noreply@blogger.com