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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2639660, member: 66&quot;]The Mint exhausted their supply of cent planchets in October of 1814.&nbsp; Since the planchets came from Boulton and Watt in England, and at the time we were still at war with England, we could not get more.&nbsp; When the war ended in March 1815 the Mint placed another order for planchets with Boulton &amp; Watt.&nbsp; They arrived in mid to late December 1815 and striking began using dies dated 1816.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not aware of Philadelphia having a problem with Scarlet Fever, I believe you mean Yellow Fever.&nbsp; While Yellow fever was causing annual shut downs in the 1790&#039;s I&#039;m not sure they were still having the problem in 1814.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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