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    The Fugio cent, also known as the Franklin cent, is the first official circulation coin of the United States. Consisting of 0.36 oz (10 g) of copper and...
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  • coin that was minted and officially circulated by the United States, the Fugio Cent, displays the words “Mind Your Business” on the obverse. In the 1930s...
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    which was the Fugio cent of 1787 (also known as the Franklin cent), based on the Continental dollar. As with the Fugio cent, the Chain cent was made of...
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  • trove of several thousand Fugio Cents that were discovered at the Bank of New York. Sometime in 1788, a keg of Fugio cents was acquired by the bank and...
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    followed the precedent of the Fugio cent of 1787 in establishing the copper cent, from which descends today's one-cent piece. The Act also stipulated...
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    1782, and the first general-circulation coin of the United States, the Fugio cent, was produced in 1787 based on the Continental dollar. The current United...
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    Online database of Franklin's papers Franklin's electrostatic machine Fugio Cent, 1787 coin designed by Franklin List of early American publishers and...
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    official one-cent coin (known as a Fugio Cent) of the United States held the message "Mind Your Business". In 1793, the first one-cent coin was struck...
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    Continental Currency dollar coin (also known as Continental dollar coin, Fugio dollar, or Franklin dollar) was the first pattern coin struck for the United...
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    and the Coinage Act of 1792. Early American currency Fries's Rebellion Fugio Cent Gove's Rebellion Pine Tree Riot Shays' Rebellion Whiskey Rebellion Belknap...
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  • Elai Lineendunge, 2006 "Mind your business", a motto imprinted on the Fugio cent of 1787 (the first general circulation coin of U.S. currency) Mind Your...
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  • Banknotes of the United States dollar Continental Currency dollar coin Fugio cent "Continental Currency: November 29, 1775". coins.nd.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-19...
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  • works include The 1776 Continental Currency Coinage: Varieties of the Fugio Cent (1952), The Fantastic 1804 Dollar (1962) and U.S. Coin Scales and Counterfeit...
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  • dies for the Connecticut copper coinage as well as the dies for the Fugio cents - America's first coinage. By 1784, Buell cut punches for, and cast his...
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