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The Flying Eagle cent is a one-cent piece struck by the Mint of the United States as a pattern coin in 1856 and for circulation in 1857 and 1858. The coin was designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre , with the eagle in flight based on the work of Longacre's predecessor, Christian Gobrecht .
The Royal Canadian Mint refers to the coin as the "1-cent coin", but in practice the terms penny and cent predominate. [6] Penny was likely readily adopted because the previous coinage in Canada (up to 1858) was the British monetary system, where Canada used British pounds, shillings, and pence as coinage alongside U.S. decimal coins.
The penny, also known as the cent, is a coin in the United States representing one-hundredth of a dollar.It has been the lowest face-value physical unit of U.S. currency since the abolition of the half-cent in 1857 (the abstract mill, which has never been minted, equal to a tenth of a cent, continues to see limited use in the fields of taxation and finance).
An uncirculated version of this coin is worth $224,831. 7. 1856 Flying Eagle Cent — $172,500. The Flying Eagle cent may not be as rare as the 1943 Lincoln cents, but they are still worth more ...
A 1792 silver center cent sold for $352,500 at a Heritage auction in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday -- and a 1792 Birch cent, one of only 10 in existence, raked in a whopping $517,000.
The half-cent piece was made of 100% copper and half of a cent, or one two-hundredth of a dollar (five milles). It was slightly smaller than a modern U.S. quarter with diameters 22 mm (1793), [1] 23.5 mm (1794–1836), [2] and 23 mm (1840–1857). [3] They were all produced at the Philadelphia Mint.
A one-cent coin or one-cent piece is a small-value coin minted for various decimal currencies using the cent as their hundredth subdivision. Examples include: the United States one-cent coin, better known as the US penny; the Canadian one-cent piece, better known as the Canadian penny; the Australian one-cent coin; the New Zealand one-cent coin
The following mint marks indicate which mint the coin was made at ... 1858 (P) 7,368,000 O 520,000 S 121,000 (P) ... United States cent mintage figures.