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Bar Copper Cent , Early American token - 1785

Bar Copper Cent , Early American token - 1785

$ 14.78

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: look photo....24.7 mm
  • Composition: Copper
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Coin: Bar Cent
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Certification: Uncertified
  • Year: 1785
  • Circulated/Uncirculated: Unknown

    Description

    1785 Bar Copper Cent  (repro)
    The Bar Copper cent design has thirteen parallel and unconnected bars on one side representing the thirteen separate states united into a single entity as symbolized by the interlocking letters (USA).
    The Bar copper is updated and of uncertain origin believed to have been struck in England.
    From the New Jersey Gazette of November 12, 1785:
    ?A new and curious kind of coppers have lately made their appearance in New York. the novelty and bright gloss of which keeps them in circulation. These coppers are in fact similar to Continental buttons without eyes; on the one side are thirteen stripes and on the other U.S.A., as was usual on the Continental soldiers, buttons.?
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    Diameter: 24.7 mm