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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 8257913, member: 66&quot;]And I would give the honor to the Fugio cent as it was contracted for and by the government.&nbsp; We did not have a mint yet and so contracted the production of our first coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You may want to drop &quot;legal tender&quot; out of that as the Fugio was not legal tender (Neither were the half cents and large cents struck by the first US Mint.&nbsp; It doesn&#039;t have to be legal tender to be a coin.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Except the Continental Currency and Constellatio patterns were not officially authorized by the government.&nbsp; And in the case of the Continental Currency pieces may have been made in England after the end of the war in 1783.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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