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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 1249882, member: 16948&quot;]My good friend Rick Snow created this wonderful video on how the small cent came about.&nbsp; It&#039;s a very interesting story and Rick did a great job researching and putting this together.&nbsp; He shows a lot of photos from the Hoosier Collection which includes many beautiful patterns.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an excerpt from the video:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Beginning in 1850, the historic flood of new gold from California cheapened that metal and made all prices related to gold more expensive.&nbsp; In 1853, the weight of smaller silver coins was reduced to keep them from being melted.&nbsp; That same, year the large copper cent and half-cent began to cost the Mint more than its face value to produce.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I highly recommend this very educational presentation to any of you who collect small cents.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4vWf6u9soU" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4vWf6u9soU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4vWf6u9soU</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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