Template:Did you know nominations/Lord Baltimore penny

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 09:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Lord Baltimore penny edit

Lord Baltimore penny
Lord Baltimore penny
  • ... that the Lord Baltimore penny (pictured) is the first copper coin issued for circulation in America?

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 19:17, 3 April 2016 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Doug Coldwell: - Looking good across the board. Passed  MPJ-US  22:42, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

  • Apart from the obvious typo in the hook, can I ask whereabouts in the ref(s) is this fact? (I may have misread or misunderstood that typo, but I can't explicitly find what I think it means in the two refs provided at the end of the third sentence in the body). Fuebaey (talk) 00:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
  • Totally missed the typo (fixed) and reference 5 states (among other facts) "America's First Copper Pattern".  MPJ-US  00:51, 11 April 2016 (UTC)