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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 221525, member: 6370&quot;]<span style="color: black"><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/fugio_cents/fugio_cent_n013_X_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><img src="http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/fugio_cents/fugio_cent_n013_X_rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">These coins have been known by various names, as “Franklin,” “Sun Dial,” “Ring,” and “Mind your business” cents, as well as Fugio cent &#039;flee&#039; or &#039;Time flies&#039;</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">Another name is proposed for them by Mr. Bushnell in the annexed paragraph:</span></p><p><span style="color: black">&#039;This coin was issued by authority of Congress in 1787. It is generally known as the Franklin cent, but should properly called the Rittenhouse Cent, if named after any individual...It was first coined in the city of New York. A number of sets of dies were made, and the piece was subsequently coined not merely in New York, but also New Haven, Connecticut, Rupert, Vermont, and other places. The dies were made by Abel Buel, of New Haven, and the coins were struck by means of a drop press.” </span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">These were the earliest coins issued by the authority of the United States. The records relating to them are very meager, and the papers therein referred to cannot be found. The ensuing copies of the entries in the Journal of Congress contain all the information that can now be procured regarding the proceedings of the authorities in relation to this coinage: these we copy according to their dates.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">The Committee, consisting of Mr. Johnson, Mr. King, Mr. Pierce, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Pettit, to whom was referred a report of the Board of Treasury on certain proposals for coining copper have reported,</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">The re-strikes frequently seen...are from dies found in a store at New Haven, Connecticut, formerly occupied by Messrs. Broome and Platt.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/fugio_cents/fugio_cents.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/fugio_cents/fugio_cents.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinfacts.com/colonial_coins/fugio_cents/fugio_cents.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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