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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3643608, member: 101855&quot;]The reason for adding edge lettering or the &quot;vines and bars&quot; to the copper coins may have been this simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint had the Castaing machine available, which would be used on the gold and silver coinage. Why not try it out on the copper coins, which were the only coins that mint could issue in 1793 and most of 1794 because certain key mint officials could not raise their bonding requirements. The mint issued its first silver coins, the dollar, in October 1795 and dropped the edge devices on almost all of the copper coins the last week in December.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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