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1793 CE
First authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792 on April 2, 1792, the half-cent piece is made of one hundred percent copper and is valued at five milles, or one two-hundredth of a dollar.
The 1793 half-cent is slightly smaller than a modern U.S. quarter, with a diameter of twenty-two millimeters.
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1793-½C-Liberty Cap Half Cent (left), copper, 22mm, 6.740g, designed by Henry Voigt. National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History (photograph by Jaclyn Nash)
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Northern North America
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