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N066 1 Cent
N066 1 Cent
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N066 1 Cent

US Coin
Identifier:
N066- 1 Cent
Type:
Coin
Date:
1892
Dimensions:
Description:
This one-cent coin entered the market in 1859 as a replacement for the Flying Eagle Cent. It was engraved by James Longacre, who described his new design: "From the copper shores of Lake Superior, to the silver mountains of Potosi from the Ojibwa to the Aramanian, the feathered tiara is as characteristic of the primitive races of our hemisphere, as the turban is of the Asiatic. Nor is there anything in its decorative character, repulsive to the association of Liberty … It is more appropriate than the Phrygian cap, the emblem rather of the emancipated slave, than of the independent freeman, of those who are able to say “we were never in bondage to any man”. I regard then this emblem of America as a proper and well defined portion of our national inheritance; and having now the opportunity of consecrating it as a memorial of Liberty, ‘our Liberty’, American Liberty; why not use it? One more graceful can scarcely be devised. We have only to determine that it shall be appropriate, and all the world outside of us cannot wrest it from us."
The coin was produced until 1909, with some fluctuations in circulation; for example, as the economy declined in 1877, there was less demand for one-cent coins and thus less were produced that year.
Post-Civil War
Related Collection
Numismatic Collection: Donor Unknown (NUM.2003.000)