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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1262314, member: 17919&quot;]However, the Constitution prohibits States from accepting anything but gold and silver in payment of debts. So it wouldn&#039;t make any sense to include that prohibition while printing out unbacked paper money. Besides, there was a lot of opposition to paper money in the early days of the Republic due to the problems with the Continental Currency (&quot;not worth a Continental&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, the reason why copper coins were minted first is because there was a problem bonding Mint workers so that they could handle gold and silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also note that copper coinage had no real legal tender status until 1864, when it was given legal tender status up to a face value of 20 cents for the 2-cent pieces, and 10 cents for the 1-cent pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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