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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lon Chaney, post: 24662871, member: 29844&quot;]If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>It&#039;s true that everyone from the mint&#039;s web designer to the people that make the rolls to the kid that sold me a coffee this morning calls it a penny. </p><p>But it doesn&#039;t make it so!</p><p><br /></p><p>SEC. 10. <i>And be it further enacted</i>, That, upon the said coins respectively, there shall be the following <b>devices and legends</b>, namely: Upon one side of each of the said coins there shall be an impression emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of the word Liberty, and the year of the coinage; and upon the reverse of each of the gold and silver coins there shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with this inscription, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,” and upon the reverse of each of the copper coins, there shall be an inscription which shall express <i><b>the denomination of the piece, namely, cent or half-cent, as the ease may require.</b></i></p><p><a href="https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/coinage-act-of-april-2-1792" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/coinage-act-of-april-2-1792" rel="nofollow">https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/coinage-act-of-april-2-1792</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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