Talk:Fugio cent

Fugio's New Home
This information about the Fugio Cent, and related Fugio Note, was moved from the Mind your own business article. The author mistakenly equated the "Mind Your Business" on the back of the Fugio Cent with the common phrase "Mind Your Own Business." In a week (after finals), I will re-write the article to clarify the origins of this coin, and the significance of it as the United State's first minted coin. All I will write about this coin will be what I find in the attached resources; any additional help is welcomed. Nicholas SL Smith chatter 22:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

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Why not say the diameter??
Why doesn't the article tell how big the coin is? As in, diameter? HandsomeMrToad (talk) 01:32, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 11 June 2019

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 (talk) 10:17, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Fugio Cent → Fugio cent – If you look at the titles of all the other articles about coinage of the United States, the denomination of the coin is put in lowercase, as in Standing Liberty quarter, Flowing Hair dollar, Draped Bust dollar, Walking Liberty half dollar, and Liberty Head nickel. (Note that "eagle" is considered a denomination quantity for the quarter eagle and half eagle and double eagle, which were fractions or multiples of the eagle, and "union" is considered a denomination quantity for the half union, which had a value of half a union.) This article is the only one that seems inconsistent with that general rule (except some multi-coin series articles such as America the Beautiful Quarters, which is the topic of another active RM already), for no reason that is apparent to me. —BarrelProof (talk) 04:48, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - WP:MOSNUM is clear on this. Primergrey (talk) 12:43, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ...Huh? WP:MOSNUM mentions nothing about the capitalization of the word of the currency itself, but rather explains how numeric amounts of currency should be used. Steel1943  (talk) 17:06, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It has a section MOS:CURRENCY, which refers to WP:WikiProject Numismatics/Style. That seems to cover it. —BarrelProof (talk) 15:40, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per nom - ZLEA  T \ C 16:31, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and above. Barca (talk) 18:27, 14 June 2019 (UTC)


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Meaning of words on coin
Likely: "fugio" = "I run away" is put next to the moving sun, and what is running away is not any person or group of people, but time, as in "tempus fugit". And "mind your own business" here means not "keep your nose out" but "time is always passing and running away :: attend to any work that you have to do while there is still time available to do it.". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:19, 11 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Is that different from what's on the article now? AnonMoos (talk) 10:00, 11 June 2019 (UTC) AnonMoos (talk) 09:55, 11 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The words on the coin read "mind your business", which is distinct from "mind your own business". - ZLEA  T \ C 16:39, 11 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The current state of the article does not claim otherwise. If there was an issue, it appears to have been fixed in 2008... AnonMoos (talk) 18:14, 11 June 2019 (UTC)