The Wreath cent was an American large cent. It was the second design type, following the Chain cent in 1793. It was produced only during that year.
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Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
There’s a light and a shadow on every man
Who at last attains his lifted mark—
Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
Elate he never can be;
He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth,
Sleep in oblivion.—The shark
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