A one-cent copper coin minted in 1793 – the year in which the newly-independent United States of America first began minting its own currency – has fetched a record $1.36 million at a Florida auction.
It was hot in Philadelphia during the summer of 1793 — very hot. And the soaring temperatures complicated life in the city. Foul smells of rotting refuse and waste permeated the air. Swarms of ...