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 Betreff des Beitrags: 1950 American 5-cent
BeitragVerfasst: 24. Jun 2011, 05:33 
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Each corner of the globe has its special hazards; volcanoes and earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes, floods, wildfires and landslides—the list of nature’s nasty surprises is long and sometimes very deadly.

In the American Midwest, our special affliction is the tornado.

What we used to call the “Weather Bureau”---now the NWS, or “National Weather Service”---has been keeping better statistics on tornadoes since 1950. Last month, unfortunately, a tornado hit Joplin, Missouri (of “Route 66” fame) and killed more people than any single tornado since 1950, when the NWS began keeping its more precise tornado statistics.

Below is a contemporary of the NWS commitment to improved recordkeeping, a 1950 Jefferson nickel.

Because of decreased demand following the ’49 recession, only Philadelphia and Denver coined nickels in 1950, to a total that was the lowest since the Great Depression year of 1933 (when none were struck).

The Philadelphia-mint coins like this one were by far the more common of the two 1950 nickels, but still, for the many thousands of Americans assembling coin sets at the time, the Philly-mint 1950 was among the tougher Jeffersons to find in circulation. (Perhaps, in part, because of its connection to the Denver-mint 1950d, which was the subject of an incredible speculative frenzy during the ‘50s and ‘60s.)....


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 Betreff des Beitrags: Re: 1950 American 5-cent
BeitragVerfasst: 24. Jun 2011, 05:38 
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The 1950 nickel illustrated is a coin that obviously spent several years in circulation, but it did finally find its way into a coin folder and was there for some decades before I bought the set for an Italian friend.

As collectors, of course, we talk a lot about the stories our coins could tell. We speculate about what our small favorites have done, and where they have been. We wonder, sometimes, what events they may have survived, or what catastrophe they perhaps avoided.

The photo is of the little jewelry store where I bought this particular 1950 nickel, on Main Street in Joplin, less than two months before the building was destroyed by the outer edge of an EF-5 tornado.

As collectors we know that our coins are usually very tight-lipped about their experiences, and I expect that in a decade or two, at most, no one will have any idea of this 1950 nickel’s close call.

:) v.


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 Betreff des Beitrags: Re: 1950 American 5-cent
BeitragVerfasst: 24. Jun 2011, 08:34 
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Der arme Juwelier, hoffentlich war er versichert und kann das Haus wieder aufbauen. Danke für den Bericht, Grüße KarlAntonMartini


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 Betreff des Beitrags: Re: 1950 American 5-cent
BeitragVerfasst: 29. Jun 2011, 03:06 
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For fun, a wooden nickel from Joplin and the heyday of Route 66....


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