The "nick," America’s first small penny ...This first small cent in American commerce set the size standard for all future U.S. pennies. It was also the nation’s first copper-nickel coin (originally called the white cent, nickel or nick). Contemporaries favored its compactness in pocket or purse (previous U.S. cents had weighed about four times as much) and its new non-smearing alloy (the old 100% copper pennies could stain perspiring fingers). First intended for the dollar size, the spectacular Flying Eagle engraving caused minting problems, which led to the coin’s quick retirement in 1858. The antebellum reverse combined wheat and corn of the North with cotton and tobacco of the South. Our Good quality circulated during the Civil War. |
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