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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1561111, member: 4381&quot;]and?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the reason the 2 cent was passed was because of the shortage of nickel and the in ability of the mint to keep up.&nbsp; There was a good article in, I forget where now, on the problems of nickel aquisition after 1863 in the civil war that finally caused the cent to be produced in bronze, rather than nickel/cu.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The interesting thing I found in that article was that it said the flying eagle was well accepted by the public but disliked by the banks, resulting in the Indian head penny.&nbsp; Darn if I understand what the banks cared about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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