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What Is The Oldest US Cent?
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The denomination of a "cent" was established with the Coinage Act of 1786.
The oldest Federal (United States) coinage issue to have the denomination of a cent explicitly named on the coin is the Chain Reverse Large Cent of 1793.
The Fugio cent of 1787 was intended to have a value of one cent but as struck the word "cent" (nor any denomination) does not appear anywhere on the coin.
The Massachusetts cent of 1787 was the first non-Federal issue to have the denomination of a "cent" explicitly appear on the coin.
Any errors are my own, feel free to offer corrections.
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The stated denomination of a coin was not as important in the 18th century as the metal weight of the coin. Almost all early US Mint produced coins in the 18th century, like the Half Dime, dime, quarter, half dollar, dollar and gold did not have denominations on the coin. The metal content gave it its value. The early Mint Half Cents and cents were the exceptions, with denominations in the coin design, rather than the rule. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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 I believe that the fugio was the first circulated coin issued by the government  |
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I believe that the fugio was the first circulated coin issued by the government Where on the coin does it say One Cent ?  |
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If having the denomination on the coin is important for the Fugio to be the first cent, where is the denomination in this quarter?  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
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numismatic student, I think you've made your point.
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If having the denomination on the coin is important for the Fugio to be the first cent, where is the denomination in this quarter? The question was : What was the oldest U.S. Cent !  |
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It's semantics.
There is a difference between "the oldest one cent coin" and "the oldest coin which was valued at one cent"
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