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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 8256758, member: 5372&quot;]Addressing only this part of the Post, the piece you present is not officially a first coin. I understand the introduction of the coin into the Americas shortly after we became a separate country from England. If that was the basis of consideration, then that Trophy would have to be extended to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and their establishment of a Mint in Boston in 1652. That was accomplished without the consent of England, and England was not even notified. It was strictly done to fuel commerce in North America.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Congress of Confederation gets a shout-out for the award of the Trophy, because in Feb. 1782, this Congress authorized the establishment of a Mint in the United States by Resolution, and authorizing the first general circulation of a coin in the U.S., which led to the Fugio Cent being produced in 1787. BTW, it was modeled and based on the Continental Dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Coinage Act of 1792 of course established the authorization of the first Federal U.S. Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>So........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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