Flying Eagle cent
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The Flying Eagle cent is a one-cent piece struck by the Mint of the United States as a pattern coin in 1856 and for circulation in 1857 and 1858. The coin was designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B.
NNC US 1858 1C Flying Eagle Cent
Reverse of the 1837 Feuchtwanger cent
Pattern half cent in copper-nickel, struck to display the alloy as a coin
Spanish colonial real
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The silver real was the currency of the Spanish colonies in America and the Philippines. In the seventeenth century the silver real was established at two billon reales or sixty-eight maravedíes. Gold
Flying Eagle cent
…gave them to legislators and officials, Congress formally authorized the new piece in February 1857. The new cent was issued in exchange for the worn Spanish colonial silver coin that had circulated in the U.S. until then, as well as for its larger predecessor. So many cents were issued that they choked commercial channels…
A Spanish colonial silver coin, minted in Potosí in 1768, featuring the columns and the hemispheres