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H.A. Sternberg showed a very clever coin puzzle in The Numismatist in 1928.. "The trick is to take seven coins—half dollar, quarter dollar, nickel and four pennies, totaling 84 cents—and arrange them in two rows, five coins in each row, each row totaling 82 cents. Sounds impossible, but it can be done. Try it."
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Thank you for checking back to see if you got the answer correct to last week's Test Your Knowledge! Let us know how you did, share on Facebook, and check back next week for a new challenge.
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Test Your Knowledge Weekly Quiz
What note are we showing in the image above, and what is the Freidberg Number associated with the note?
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For a third week, we feature a Numismatic quiz to test your knowledge. Find the answers below!
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Trivia to the fore here! See how many you can get right from the four questions below. Each has four clues. Accordingly, by chance you should get at least one right. See how well you can do.
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By Q. David Bowers, Co-Founder
Welcome to our latest numismatic challenge. If you enjoy the arcane and obscure aspects of numismatics, you may have fun with this. Questions range from basic, such as No. 1 below, to ones requiring experience and study.
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Thank you for checking back in again this week to see if you got the correct answer to last week's Test Your Knowledge!
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In which 19th Century year could you own three $1 Coins of different types? Share this post on Facebook and see if you or your friends can get the correct answer!
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