Question to ponder

[RogerB]

On coins made by the U S Mint at Carson City, Nevada the mintmark is "CC." (The village was commonly called "Carson, Nevada" in contemporary mint documents.)

Which "C" stands for "City" and which for "Carson?"

[JASONKFLO]

I imagine the first C is Carson and the second City

[raynat3]

Used in a sentence “ The City of Carson, Nevada”....

Carson City is what we are used to. Language from the past is much different than the grammar that is common these days that I am certainly guilty of.

[blh74]

I had a shop in the City of Carson, California for 30 years.

[messydesk]

On coins made by the U S Mint at Carson City, Nevada the mintmark is "CC." (The village was commonly called "Carson, Nevada" in contemporary mint documents.)

Which "C" stands for "City" and which for "Carson?"

M-m-maybe it stands for C-Carson.

[raynat3]

Well the map of 1866 in LOC, 2 years after statehood, shows the name to be Carson City.

[RogerB]

If the mintmark had been: "CN" for Carson, Nevada, it might have been called "Cyanide City." Cyanide was used in recovery of gold from crushed ore.

[messydesk]

Well the map of 1866 in LOC, 2 years after statehood, shows the name to be Carson City.

Sure enough. I could wastespend an awful lot of time looking at old maps there. The 1865 railroad map shows it that way, too.