Now the coin has a new home at West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins. He probably was a little surprised when I bought it from him for $20,000.вЂќ He was planning to put it back into his safety deposit box, but I just really wanted it, so I kept asking him how much he wanted for it. вЂњAnd when he came in, he actually just wanted to know what his coin was worth. was minting half cents and cents, and so this is a very significant coin to buy.вЂќ Eric estimates that when the man bought the coin back in the 1980s, it would have cost him somewhere between $300 and $600. 'He'd bought the coin about 30 years ago, had it certified 10 years later, and then took it out of his safety deposit box 20 years later and brought it here.' So when a gentleman walked into the Bellevue location of West Seattle Coins and Bellevue Rare Coins with a 1793 Wreath cent certified XF-40 (Extra Fine), senior buyer Eric Hoolahan was understandably interested. Records from the fledgling Philadelphia Mint show that just over 63,000 Wreath cents were struck, and experts estimate that probably only 3,500 or so survive today, most of which arenвЂ™t in very good condition. While Lady Liberty remained largely unchanged on the front of the coin, the reverse depicted an elegant wreath of leaves that resembled laurel. Despite the fact that collectors now prize these coins, public reaction at the time was decidedly mixed because many related the chain design to slavery. These were the Chain cents that featured Lady Liberty on the front and a chain design on the reverse. And in 1793, the federal government minted the first cents for general circulation on its own equipment. The largest urban area was New York City, with a population of just over 33,000 people. Census, which asked a total of six questions.

Thomas Jefferson was in charge of the first U.S. George Washington gave the countryвЂ™s first State of the Union address. Back in the 1790s, the United States was quite a different place.

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