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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1678769, member: 112&quot;]It says right in the Red Book why they were made - because there were no half cents made in 1837 and they drastically needed them. So these were privately made. I suspect they were included in the Red Book because they were so commonly used at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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