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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4298049, member: 66"]Cents and half cents were not legal tender. The cent did not get legal tender status until the authorization of the bronze (95% copper 5% tin and zinc) cents in 1864, and even then they only had limited legal tender status. Whether that limited legal tender status was applied retroactively to the large cents and coppernickel cents is debatable. It would seem odd to have at least four different types of cent in circulation, all issued by the same authority, and only have one of them legal tender. Likewise when the legal tender status of the subsidiary coins was limited in 1853 I do believe it was applied to the older heavier weight coins as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The half cent was never legal tender until the coinage act of 1965 (although there was a resolution of Congress in 1933 that declared all US coins, whenever they were made, to be legal tender. Whether that resolution had the force of law I do not know.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4298049, member: 66"]Cents and half cents were not legal tender. The cent did not get legal tender status until the authorization of the bronze (95% copper 5% tin and zinc) cents in 1864, and even then they only had limited legal tender status. Whether that limited legal tender status was applied retroactively to the large cents and coppernickel cents is debatable. It would seem odd to have at least four different types of cent in circulation, all issued by the same authority, and only have one of them legal tender. Likewise when the legal tender status of the subsidiary coins was limited in 1853 I do believe it was applied to the older heavier weight coins as well. The half cent was never legal tender until the coinage act of 1965 (although there was a resolution of Congress in 1933 that declared all US coins, whenever they were made, to be legal tender. Whether that resolution had the force of law I do not know.)[/QUOTE]
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