My first American coin!

[Urien of Rheged]

I have reached the big league now. Not bad for a hedge on a country lane in rural Lancashire, England.
An 1855 cent. Well worn but to be fair has faired better in our acidic soil than many of our own copper coins from that era.
Pre civil war too.
Can anyone tell me about these, where they where minted for example?

 

[Deleted member 54237]

Well done...

 

[BigWaveDave]

1.5 million minted in Philadelphia Pennsylvania….. nice find!

 

[Urien of Rheged]

1.5 million minted in Philadelphia Pennsylvania….. nice find!

Pennsylvania. Home of the Quakers. They started off in my neck of the woods, one permission of mine has an old ruined cottage in it that was apparently one of their early meeting houses. Never found much there other than a yard weight.
I live in the shadow of the hill their leader George Stephenson?? George something like that anyway,
Had his vision of God. Tradition has it around here that Merlin also used to climb that hill and have "visions".
It was not lost on me and my mates as teenagers that this same hill is renowned for its abundance of fungi especially magic mushrooms. I dont wish to offend all you Quakers out there but I'm personally a little skeptical that George's visions where lets say, natural.
Bit of a tangent but maybe it was a Quaker visiting the motherland who dropped it 😀