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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2638676, member: 66&quot;]This is incorrect.&nbsp; There were three types of cent produced in 1793.&nbsp; The first was the Chain cent mintage 36,103.&nbsp; Then the Wreath cent 63,353. And finally the Liberty cap 11,056.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several of your points seem to relate to the mint and coinage in general and not specifically to the cent.&nbsp; I thought this was cent trivia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some more trivia:</p><p><br /></p><p>The first US coin with a mintage over one million was the 1798 cent 1,841,745.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1857, due to the rising cost of copper, the cent was reduced in size and made of 88% copper and 12% nickel.&nbsp; This composition stayed through mid 1864. When new these coins had a silver white color and they were commonly called &quot;Nickels&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cent has had more than one design in a given year on five occasions. 1793, the Chain, Wreath,, and Liberty cap.&nbsp; 1796 Liberty Cap and Draped Bust. 1839 Coronet and Petite head. 1857 Braid hair large cent and flying eagle cent. 1909 Indian head and Lincoln cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the cent was introduced in 1793 it was roughly the equivalent value as the British Half Penny.&nbsp; So a cent wasn&#039;t a &quot;penny&quot;, it was a half penny.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the Civil war coins were widely hoarded including the copper nickel cent (Due to the value of the nickel).&nbsp; Merchants began circulating their own one cent tokens made of 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc (French Bronze), Civil War tokens.&nbsp; These tokens, at 2/3 the weight of the regular cent and without the valuable nickel, stayed in circulation becuase the value of the metal was well below one cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The government thought this was a great idea, so in 1863 the passed a law banning the private tokens, and in mid 1864 began making cents out of the same lower weight French Bronze alloy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only year the mint has not made cents was 1815 due to a shortage of planchets caused by the War of 1812.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1796 to 1832 planchets for US cents were provided by the Boulton &amp; Watt Company of Birmingham England.</p><p><br /></p><p>From late 1793 to Dec 1795 the cents had a lettered edge, since then they have all had a plain edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of the 1793 cents had a &quot;vine and bars&quot; edge design.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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