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My 1816 Large Cent
The Year Without a Summer or Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death
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7 min readApr 8, 2020
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This is my 1816 Large Cent. Notice that I don’t call her a penny. The British had pennies. The United States had and still has a decimal system for its money.
Thomas Jefferson proposed that decimal system with one hundred cents to a dollar and Ben Franklin had…
