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<p>[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 25734635, member: 105571"]Here's my Mass half cent and cent. Seconding [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER]'s comments on quality of dies and striking. Also, these were the only Confederation state coppers with the actual denomination shown. Craig Sholley has written that while the others (NJ, NY, Conn, et.al.) were authorized, minted and traded as half cents they were all colloquially known as "coppers". Only later, around the 1830s did they start trading as cents. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1644044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1644045[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Publius2, post: 25734635, member: 105571"]Here's my Mass half cent and cent. Seconding [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER]'s comments on quality of dies and striking. Also, these were the only Confederation state coppers with the actual denomination shown. Craig Sholley has written that while the others (NJ, NY, Conn, et.al.) were authorized, minted and traded as half cents they were all colloquially known as "coppers". Only later, around the 1830s did they start trading as cents. [ATTACH=full]1644044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1644045[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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