Show FIRST UNITED STATES COINS m Made of Copper Were s Earliest Issued by Direct Authority Authority Au Au- f of Congress The fu los were the earliest coin col Issued by the authority of the Unit States and were of copper It na Was Was' o April 1787 that the congress of T t t United States authorized the board treasury to contract for ton tans of copper coin of the federal standard agreeably to the proposition of 11 Mv r. r James Jarvis provided that the prein um to be allowed to the United States States on the account of the copper contract contract for be not less than 15 per cent oral ard that It be coined at the expense of the contractor but under the tion of an officer appointed and paw pad by the United States It is is' presumed that this copper co cam r contract was made as directed for or oa Friday July 0 1787 the adopted this resolution That the hoard board of treasury direct the contras contractor or 1 for the copper coinage to stamp one side of each piece the following f device viz Thirteen circles link tl together and a small circle In the in mH die with the words United flitted Stat States States' around it and in the center time the words We are one On the other side o 1 the same piece the following device viz A dial with the hours express expressed b bon on the face of it It a meridian sun ahoy above r ron on one side of which Is to be the wor t and on the other side the data 1 1787 below the dial the words your own business |