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Bar Cent

The name given to a United States copper trial or experimental piece supposed to have been struck about 1776, according to a proposed plan for a decimal coinage.

It takes its name from the thirteen lat- eral bars which cover one entire side of the coin.


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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