It features a large single star emanating rays, with an eye within, it is surrounded by a wreath of 13 smaller stars, and they are encircled by the motto STELLA QUARTA DECIMA which translates as the 14th star. The design of the reverse of the coin is an almost wholesale appropriation of an earlier 1783 American coin called the Nova Constellatio (new constellation) design. PUBLICA., which can be translated as the republic, or commonwealth, of Vermont. The design of the obverse, on the initial 17 coins, featured the Sun rising above the Green Mountains and a plow in the foreground encircled by the inscription VERMONTS. The same committee was retained to select a motto for the coins, and to oversee design. On June 17, 1785, Harmon posted a required bond and began establishing his mint situated beside Hagar's Brook in Rupert. The House approved the measure and sent the recommendation to the Governor's Council which concurred.
On June 15, 1785, the committee presented to the House of Representatives of the Freemen of Vermont their recommendation that Vermont grant Harmon ".the exclusive right of coining Copper within this State for the term of two years." The approved language required the coins to have a minimum weight of one-third of an ounce troy weight (160 grains). The Governor's Council appointed one of its members to join the committee studying the proposal. Though Vermont's legislative branch at this period was unicameral, the Governor's Council, a part of the executive branch, acted as a sort of upper house. of Rupert to mint copper coins for the new entity Vermont. On June 10, 1785, the House of Representatives of the Freemen of Vermont met to select a committee of three to consider a request from Reuben Harmon, Jr. The coins were first struck in 1785 and continued to be minted until Vermont's admission to the United States in 1791 as the State of Vermont. Vermont coppers were copper coins issued by the Vermont Republic. Reverse of the 17 design features an " all-seeing eye" with 13 stars encircled by the Latin motto STELLA.
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