The two-cent piece failed to win a permanent place in the coinage system. But the pioneering motto it used soon appeared on other denominations, and a new cent shared the two-cent piece's bronze alloy for more than a century.
Today many two-cent pieces sell for less than $20. Silver and gold coins disappeared from circulation during the Civil War. By 1863, even the copper-nickel cent had vanished.
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