HISTORY OF THE CENT.
Tlio old red cent is vapidly passing away out of the United States currency and it will not be long before it will only be known in memory and numismatic collections. Its history is a matter of sufficient preservation. The cent was first proposed by Robert Morris, the great financier of the Revolution, and Was named by Jeffei son two years after. It began to make'.its appearance from the mint in 1 792. It bore the head of Washington on the one side and thirteen links on the other. The French revolution soon created a rage for French ideas in America, which put oh the cent, instead of the head of Washington, the head of the Goddess of Liberty—a French Liberty, with flowing locks. The chain on the reverse was replaced by the olive wreath of peace. But the French Liberty was short lived, and so was her portrait on the cent. The next head or figure succeeding this—the staid classic dame with a fillet around her hair-—came into fashion about thirty or forty years ago, and her finely chiselled features have been but slightly altered in the lapse .of time. <
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Dunstan Times, Issue 518, 22 March 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)
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