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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2079232, member: 66&quot;]When the bronze indianheads were introduced the cents were given legal tender status up to 10 cents.&nbsp; Whether that gave the earlier cents limited legal tender status retroactively is up to debate.&nbsp; The half cents were gone by that time, and they didn&#039;t receive legal tender status until much later.</p><p><br /></p><p>And no you couldn&#039;t just take a bunch of cents to the bank or sometimes the store either.&nbsp; In fact that became a big problem after the FE cents were introduced.&nbsp; They were issued in huge quantities.&nbsp; The shops became loaded down with them and the banks wouldn&#039;t take them.&nbsp; But if the shops couldn&#039;t deposit them they wouldn&#039;t have the money they needed to resupply.&nbsp; And they couldn&#039;t use the cents in bulk to pay for their supplies because they were only legal tender to 10 cents!&nbsp; Often they had to sell them to brokers at a discount to get rid of them.&nbsp; Imagine that, having to sell money at less than face value just to get rid of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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