If you had arrived at the United States Mint in 1796 in Philadelphia to evaluate how the facility was doing when it came to coins and coin production, you might well have come away with a somewhat negative reports, although one that perhaps saw some light at the end of the tunnel.
Certainly based on the cent production since 1793 you could have easily come to the conclusion that there had been what might have diplomatically been called growing pains.
The size of the cent as originally authorized back in 1792 had been changed a couple times since the original ...
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