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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TJC, post: 1661707, member: 45502&quot;]Scottishmoney, thanks for your reply! Thumbs Up!</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">I have been been doing a little research and according to Wiki: Use of term </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">&quot;America(no,na,...)&quot; and other derivatives is mostly accredited to Amerigo </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Vespucci, a Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America&#039;s east </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">coast in the early 1500&#039;s. </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Thomas Hacket&#039;s 1568 translation of André </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Thévet&#039;s book on France Antarctique is the earliest use of the term in English. </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Also recorded is Thomas Gage&#039;s The English-American in 1648.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">The official </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">name of the country &#039;The United States of America&#039; was established on November </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">15, 1777, when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Confederation, the first of which says.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">What I have not been able to dig </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">up is: What is the first coin to have the use of &quot;America(no,na,...) on it&quot;? </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Are the Rosa Americana coins the first?</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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