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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mackwork, post: 1378526, member: 35676&quot;]I guess (as usual) you can&#039;t trust anything you get on the internet!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><i>&quot;<font face="sans-serif">Interestingly, the ONLY coins struck by the United States Mint in 1816 were Matron Head large cents! A fire had destroyed much of the minting machinery at the </font></i></span><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Mint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Mint" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff">Philadelphia mint</span></a></i><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="sans-serif"><i> in January of 1816, mainly the machinery used to strike silver and gold coins. Rather than invest the time and money to replace the destroyed machinery, the mint officials chose instead to coin large cents, as demand for small change for our new nation was great. Besides, foreign silver and gold coins were still plentiful enough to fill the need for the coins of higher denominations.&quot;</i></font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">from:</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"></font></span><a href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" rel="nofollow">http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent</a></p><p><a href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wikicoins.com/Matron_Head_Large_Cent" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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