History of the Penny

Let's take a closer look at what you saw, pennies. You may just look at the difference value of the copper coating circle. There are few people who know that pennies are longer than their grandparents, and even their great-grandfather. Indeed, long ago, the face of Abraham Lincoln was not the first penny designed. Take the time to consider the value of American pennies. If you do not trust people's values, pennies will be abolished. I saw people dumping pennies every day instead of putting them in their pockets and storing it for future use.

The history of pennies goes back more than 1,200 years ago. The first penny was born in the word "penny" in the year 790 AD, expressed as that change in Europe including "pfennig" in German and "Penning" in Swedish, not only small variations, but all kinds Coins and money. Indeed, the UK is the only country officially with a denomination called penny. In the United States, for centuries the 1 cent coin is called "pence" as the main reason that 1 cent coin is inspired by British pennies. But the 1 cent coin or "minutes" is the official name of the coin we call today coins. Since 1787, more than $ 300 billion was spent on 1 cent coin, including 11 different designs.

Coin, my daughter's "band" (class) research statistic (calculate penny number every 10 years, overlay the tube, draw figures with the naked eye), metallurgy (they immerse the pennies in different solutions ) Let's take. - And we made a brass coating among some people immersed in a solution containing zinc; they also lost a wax cast aluminum "coin", they are in the financial history of San Francisco's Wells Fargo I visited the museum, her love for my daughter Hamilton. Her band eventually produced a movie about the history of money - the money before the transaction, the ultimate need for funds, and various forms of funds. My daughter is a director and she plays sheep (translation).

James Gordon Bennett is one of the most creative people in the history of journalism and founded his own penny paper "Herald" in 1835. In 2 years, despite the 2 cents price hike, it still sold 20,000 copies a day. Even before Day started his sun, some pennies failed in Boston. The first successful penny paper in this city is daily paper in 1836. Philadelphia has a daily transcript starting in 1835 and a public ledger in 1836; Baltimore Sunday was first announced in 1837 - everything was sold for pennies