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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 268208, member: 66&quot;]Cents were not legal tender until April 22nd 1864 at which time they received a limited legal tender status to the amount of no more than 10 cents in any one payment.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Legal Tender status of foreign coins is much more convoluted than most people realize.&nbsp; Some people think that all foreign coins were legal tender until 1857.&nbsp; Not true.&nbsp; Some thing that all gold coins were legal tender.&nbsp; Not true.&nbsp; Some think that all Spanish and Spanish colony silver coins were legal tender.&nbsp; Not true.&nbsp; Some think that at least some foreign coins were legal tender during the whole period from 1792 to 1857.&nbsp; Not true.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone is interested I have an excel file that shows graphically which coins were legal tender, when they were legal tender and the Acts and dates that changed the legal tender statuses.&nbsp; If you&#039;d like a copy let me know and I can email it to you .&nbsp; Or if someone can explain to me how I can upload a copy of the file somewhere where it can be linked to I can try that.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, I have converted the Excel file to a PDF file and attached it. (Can&#039;t attach Excell files.)&nbsp; Thanks for the clue about attachments.&nbsp; I normally just use the quick reply and don&#039;t know about a lot of the other little things you can do to a post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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