Show concerning I 1 cents As Is well known certain w western MC er a nud and southwestern cities scorn to use any coins coins las leis than a it fire cent nickel when a newe cor eor p horation po ration started a cheap evening paper in ill st louis louls it bought and circulated iu that city several barrels of pr cents at the close of tho fiscal year q 0 1881 the total coelln cointo 0 of cents dj 9 Gr granting antink thai that they were all till of the size naw in use although many of them were I 1 enuch b larger they would fill over cars carrying 20 tons e each the earliest american ceril authorized by an act of congress of july 0 1787 was at filst fil st coined by janus s jaryis of aravell biot cl cut il the weight was grains which was reduced to grains in 1703 and being still too large t to I 1 grauli two years later the coinage was discontinued in 1857 after worth had made in 1857 the nickel cent wa wm f jr t coined it was smaller than its old fashioned predecessor weighing 72 grains 88 per centon cent of copper and 12 per pcr cent of nickel in 1864 1804 ahn c coinage inage was ed a after worth had been made alio bronze cent ot 0 the present time camo into being in 1864 it weighs only 48 grains of 95 per cen benl is copper r and e u per pr cent tin till RD and i more tor than worth lave halve already been coined ined the bronze two cent piece was f first I 1 in 1864 J Jt weighs 96 gra grains ins and when the coinage was stopped in iii i 1873 had been issued I 1 I 1 |