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North Carolina, home of the Raleigh Coin Club and Raleigh Coin Hawks has a long and rich numismatic history. Factoids and trivia related to that history have appeared for years under the title banner of the club's website. It is from these that this reworked and expanded trivia quiz was derived. If you don't know the answer to any of the quiz questions browse through the pages of the club website paying special attention to the North Carolina Numismatic Trivia factoids and you will find your answer. Best of luck!


1. In what year did 12-year old Conrad Reid of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina fish a seventeen pound nugget out of Meadow Creek thus making the first discovered of gold in the United States?

1800
1848
1799
1804

2. Who designed the 1937 Roanoke Commemorative Half-Dollar which commemorates the 350th anniversary of the lost colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina and the birth of Virginia Dare?

William Barber
James Earl Fraser
Laura Garden Fraser
William Marks Simpson

3. In 1815, 1817, and 1824 the state of North Carolina issued notes ranging from 5 to 75 cents. These are both rare and interesting not to mention probably an illegal state issue. Which State Tresurer was responsible for their issue?

James Gahrmann
John Haywood
Samuel R. Johnston
William Tyler

4. Until 1829 North Carolina was the only state producing domestic gold for our nations coinage. In that year what two other states made their first deposits of gold at the mint in Philadelphia?

South Carolina and Virginia
South Carolina and Georgia
Virginia and Georgia
Georgia and California

5. The Charlotte Branch Mint offically opened this year and on March 28th struck half eagles, the first United States coins struck outside of Philadelphia. What year was it?

1835
1837
1838
1839

6. The opening of the Charlotte Branch Mint did not put the Bechtlers out of business as the federal authorities had hoped. The Bechtlers survived by providing their customers with what they wanted and what the Branch Mint could not supply until 1849 - the gold dollar. In what year did the Bechtlers first strike this denomination?

1831
1838
1835
1832

7. Which Raleigh, North Carolina Bank(s) issue what we now refer to as obsolete banknotes?

Bank of the State of North Carolina (1834)
The Bank of North Carolina (1859)
State Bank of North Carolina (1810)
All of the above

8. In 1921-22 the United States Mint in Philadelphia struck two varieties of Bechtler $5 gold pieces as proofs using three dies (2 obverses and 1 reverse) supplied by which famous numismatist / dealer?

B. Max Mehl
John J. Ford
Henry Chapman
Louis Elaisberg

9. In his annual report for 1839, John Wheeler, superintendent of the Charlotte Branch Mint reported the United States had minted $3,000,000 in gold coin at all branches during its history compared to the Bechtlers total production to date of?

$2,560,000
$4,125,000
$2,950,000
$3,625,000

10. In which year were no coins minted at the Charlotte Branch Mint and why?

1854 due to a robbery of the gold reserves
1845 due to a fire in 1844 that closed the mint for repairs until 1846
1860 due to dies not being delivered over political bickering
1839 due to a special offer from the Bechtlers mint

11. The first deposit of gold, mined in the United States, made at the Philadelphia Mint came from North Carolina and was made on May 25th of what year?

1799
1802
1804
1806

12. In the 1970s Bechtler coins held by The North Carolina Museam of History were tested for gold content by the Nuclear Engineering department at N.C. State in Raleigh. It was found that the quality of the Bechtler coins ...?

increased over time with the added experience
declined over time especially as the business was passed down
remained pretty much constant and high
was erratic and unpredictable

13. Reuben Perry and Thomas Ligon of Raleigh, NC won the contract for the construction of the Charlotte Branch Mint with a bid of?

$32,500
$45,000
$29,800
$27,500

14. After being seized by the State of North Carolina at the beginning of the Civil War, how many half eagles were struck at the Charlotte Mint under Confederate control?

1156
887
945
828



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