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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 7752714, member: 12789&quot;]The last three cent coins were minted for circulation(only 19k mintage) in 1889:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1327798[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Even by then they were pretty well out of circulation but apocryphally they did circulate in small numbers into the early 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a more personal note, when I was a kid my grandfather gave me an 1867 2 cent piece that he had had for almost 80 years.&nbsp; The story was that when he was six years old in 1897 he lost his pinkie finger in a cornshucker and his brother gave him the coin to spend at the grocery store for candy in town when they went in to see the doctor.&nbsp; Instead of spending it, he saved it and gave it to me when I started collecting coins.&nbsp; So apparently even some years after the 2 cent coins were minted they did see some usage later on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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