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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 26166660, member: 101855&quot;]I am giving a presentation at Summer FUN on collecting a year set of cents from 1793 to 2025. I am going to mention the 1787 dated Fugio Cent as “optional.” It was authorized by a U.S. Government, but it was not the U.S. Federal Government. The coin was also not accepted as a cent. </p><p><br /></p><p>After the coins were delivered, they were deemed to be too light to be used as “cents,” and it was thought they would trade as “coppers,” in other words whatever people thought they were worth. They no doubt traded as cents in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but they were not official coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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