In 1796 a new one cent coin designed by Robert F. Scot was instituted in conjunction with the existing Liberty Cap design (which saw 1796 as its last year of circulation). The new coin weighed 10.89 grams and had a diameter of 29 millimeters. In the case of the new coinage Lady Liberty remained the central element of the obverse of the coin but with the addition of a fabric draping across her shoulders and bosom. The Liberty Cap and stick were dropped from this new coinage as well. This omission was likely due to increasing American apprehension over French Revolutionary excesses. While American sympathies generally rested with the revolutionaries there was growing concern in the new United States that the U.S. might get drawn into the rapidly expanding international conflagration that was the French Revolution and the general European reaction to it, which was a concerted multi-nation war on all fronts. The execution of Louis XVI in 1793 proved to be one of the most alienating acts of the revolutionaries, not because of American support for any monarchy but because it marked a much more radical departure for the French Revolutionaries from the "rational" precepts of America's founding Fathers who could easily recall their own English History and the tyranny of Cromwell which followed the beheading of Charles I. King George III certainly bore this memory in mind and there arose a desire in the former colonies not to add aggravation to the English nor to give reason for the English to interrupt American trade. As with all of the Gallery Mint reproductions, this piece is true to the original specifications as to metallic content, weight and size. It has the word COPY stamped on it as required by the Hobby Protection Act of 1973, Section 304.6. It would make a great hole filler in any United States type collection until the resources for the original come along.