1 Cent Small Eagle

Features

Issuer	United States
Type	Emergency coinage › Merchant tokens
Year	1791
Value	1 Cent (0.01 USD)
Currency	Dollar (1785-date)
Composition	Miedź
Shape	Okrągły
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 338063
References	Withers# 10630 Paul Withers, Bente R. Withers; 2010. The Token Book / Volume 1. 17th 18th & 19th Century Tokens and their Values. Galata, Llanfyllin, United Kingdom. , KM# Tn57 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Baker# 16 Medallic Portraits of Washington (3 volumes). , PCGS# 702 PCGS CoinFacts (https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts)

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Obverse

Popiersie Jerzego Waszyngtona po lewej Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering: WASHINGTON PRESIDENT.

Reverse

Orzeł amerykański Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
ONE CENT
1791

Comments

Ten typ został wyprodukowany przez W. i Alexa Walkerów z Birmingham w Anglii w celu przekonania Kongresu Stanów Zjednoczonych, że ich prywatna firma może dostarczać nowemu państwu wysokiej jakości monety po niższych kosztach niż mennica państwowa. Matryce dla tego typu przypisuje się Johnowi Gregory'emu Hancockowi, Jr, który zaprojektował również słynnego centa Washington Roman Head z 1792 roku. Walker wysłał około 1500 centów Small Eagle (a także 2500 egzemplarzy Large Eagle) do Thomas Ketland & Sons w Filadelfii w celu zaprezentowania ich ustawodawcom. Większość z tych egzemplarzy ostatecznie trafiła do obiegu w pozbawionych monet Stanach Zjednoczonych pod koniec XVIII i na początku XIX wieku, ale dzisiejsi kolekcjonerzy mają szczęście, ponieważ wiele wysokiej klasy egzemplarzy zostało zachowanych przez kolekcjonerów i innych w Anglii. Automatically translated

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This type was produced by W. and Alex Walker of Birmingham, England in an attempt to convince the United States Congress that their private firm could supply high quality coinage to the new nation at less expense than a government owned and operated mint. Dies for this type are attributed to John Gregory Hancock, Jr., who also designed the famous 1792 Washington Roman Head cent. Walker shipped approximately 1,500 Small Eagle cents (as well as 2,500 Large Eagle examples) to Thomas Ketland & Sons in Philadelphia for presentation to legislators. Most of those examples eventually found their way into circulation in the coinage-starved United States of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but today's collectors are fortunate in that many high grade examples were preserved by collectors and others in England.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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1791

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