Week # 172 Think back......way back

[Melissa Pearce]

QUESTION:

 

A law was passed in 1864 to insure that the U.S. Mint's new bronze coins would be accepted by the public. What did this law specify?

 

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Post Extras:

[TJ]

they cost less than a penny and because the new coins weren't really worth a penny they were not hoarded.

[midwest]

arrows by the date

[reid1836]

a composition called French Bronze, 95% Copper, 5% Tin and Zinc.

[Gallagher]

Just a guest but: that all U.S. coins would bear the Motto in god we trust.

gallagher

[Merc]

The law allowed the motto "In God We Trust" to be placed on a coin. The new 2 cent pieces received it first.

[bigd5]

In God We Trust had to appear somewhere on the coin?

[CarolinaCollector]

The law specified the composition of the bronze coins and barred the use of tokens (now referred to as Civil War tokens) in commerce.

[JamminJ]

That they were legal tender.

[HKnJ-migration]

....that the tokens were illegal.

[FCC-migration]

the US Congress passed the Coinage act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on allcoins minted as United States currency.

[prooflike]

The motto "In God We Trust" appeared for the first time due to the increased religious sentiment during the Civil War crisis.

[mark]

The law made them legal tender. As I recall, it was section 4 of the act, which stated, again as I recall, "And be it further enacted, That the said coins shall be a legal tender in any payment, the one -cent coin to the amount of ten cents, and the two-cent coin to the amount of twenty cents"

 

Mark

 

P.S.: Of course, my precise recollection of this law was helped by a little judicious web searching...

[chrisfuccione]

Made them the same size and color of the Civil war tokens that they were replacing.

[Melissa Pearce]

QUESTION:

 

A law was passed in 1864 to insure that the U.S. Mint's new bronze coins would be accepted by the public. What did this law specify?

 

ANSWER:

 

It prohibited the manufacture of any privately minted one-cent and two-cent tokens.

 

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