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Neal is an idiot.
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"John Cairns" wrote in message
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"Capt. NealŪ" wrote in message
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Don't listen to Cairns. He's an idiot.
http://www.coinfacts.com/confederate...ike_copper.htm
Did you even bother to read the link you posted, or did you just look at
the pretty picture?
"A red cent was a Confederate coin. When the South lost the war a red cent
was worth nothing."
CN
If you bother to read your own link, you'll notice that this particular
coin was minted over twenty years after the war ended.
http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article3187.chtml
"Yet oddly enough, the Confederate Government contacted the renowned
Philadelphia jewelers, Bailey & Co. about a contract coinage. The firm,
well connected with medalists and diesinkers, commissioned Robert Lovett
Jr. for the job. Lovett planned for something uniform with the United
States one-cent piece, weighing 4.67 grams and of the same size as the
copper-nickel Indian cent. He prepared a die which had his signature
design, a Liberty Head, on the obverse, surrounded by the words
"Confederate States of America 1861." The reverse bore the inscription "1
cent" surrounded by a wreath of corn, cotton, maple, wheat and tobacco,
and two barrels. At the beginning of the wreath lay a cotton bale signed
"L." Although Lovett prepared dies for the one-cent pieces and struck
twelve coins in copper-nickel, he never handed over the samples to
Confederate officials for inspection. Fearing that the United States
government might arrest him for assisting the enemy, he dropped the
project and buried the dies and coins in his cellar. Even when the war was
over, Lovett was reluctant to show them."
People collected coins in the 19th century, a confederate "red cent" would
have been worth much more than face value even in the 19th century.
John Cairns
"Scott Vernon" wrote in message
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"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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I'm not donating one red cent either. I wish our Federal government
refunded
the aid money to us taxpayers so each of us could decide its best
use.
According to Mooron, it was only 12 cents.
Where did the phrase ''red cent'' come from?
Scotty
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