The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 53, December 16, 2003, Article 13

NEW BUFFALO BILL WEEKLY COIN ARTICLES

  Ron Guth of Coinfacts.com writes: "I ran across the following
  tidbits in, of all places, a pair of "New Buffalo Bill Weekly"
  Magazines from 1916.

  From the November 4, 1916 issue:
  UNCLE SAM'S NEW COINS
  If some one hands you a silver coin that has an unfamiliar
  look, don't refuse it immediately in the belief that it is a
  counterfeit or of foreign origin.  The probabilities are that it
  will be a sample of Uncle Sam's new mintage, which has
  been placed in circulation in compliance with the law that
  requires a change in the designs of the silver pieces once in
  every twenty years.

  The new coins consist of half dollars, quarter dollars, and
  dimes.  For more than a month the United States mints in
  Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco have been turning
  them out at a rate of about forty thousand dollars' worth a
  day.

  The design of the new half dollars is considered a higher
  type of art than the coins that have for so long been familiar.
  The markings are not so prominently cut, and the coin has a
  much smoother appearance.  On one side of it is the figure
  of the Goddess of Liberty, holding in one arm a bunch of
  olive branches.  Above the figure are the words, "In God
  We Trust;" below it is the word, "Liberty."  On the opposite
  side of the coin there is a spread eagle, grasping an oak twig
  in his talons as he stands upon a rock.  At the top is printed,
  "The United States of America," and at the bottom, "Half
  Dollar."

  One side of the new quarter has a full figure of a woman
  coming through a gate in a wall.  On the opposite side
  there is pictured an eagle in flight.  The new dime is of a
  sharper cut.  On one side is the head of a woman.  Over
  the head is printed the word, "Liberty," and in the lower
  left-hand corner the date.  The obverse side of the coin
  has a bundle of Roman "fasces" tied tightly together, with
  an ax and a strong oak stick. Below the cutting is the
  Latin quotation, "E Pluribus Unum."

  From the November 11, 1916 issue:
  TWO AND THREE-CENT COINS SCARCE
  Ever wonder what has become of the two-cent and
  three-cent coins?  Doctor William G. Graus, of Cleveland,
  Ohio, knows about the disappearance of some of them.

  "I have two hundred two-cent pieces and one hundred
  three-cent coins," he said.  "I've been collecting them for
  fifteen years.  Two-cent pieces have disappeared from
 circulation, but a few three-cent coins are still seen."

  These were the 217th and 218th issues of the magazine, so
  I suspect that additional interesting anecdotes are sprinkled
  throughout earlier issues. Anyone have a set of these?"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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