The U.S. Mint and Coinage: An Illustrated History from 1776 to the PresentArco Publishing Company, 1966 - 400 pages Comprehensive history of American federal coinage by a numismatic historian, with a section on twentieth century coins and the sculptors who modeled them |
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An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 21 The Barber Coinage AS EARLY AS 1879 , PUBLIC DISSATISFACTION with the " Bland " dollar led Barber and Morgan to submit new designs . William Barber died the same year ...
An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 21 The Barber Coinage AS EARLY AS 1879 , PUBLIC DISSATISFACTION with the " Bland " dollar led Barber and Morgan to submit new designs . William Barber died the same year ...
Page 336
... Barber : I am sending back the hubs , having retouched the reverse . The obverse has been rubbed , and is too indistinct , so it will have to be recut . If it pleases you , you need not send me the die for the reverse for retouching ...
... Barber : I am sending back the hubs , having retouched the reverse . The obverse has been rubbed , and is too indistinct , so it will have to be recut . If it pleases you , you need not send me the die for the reverse for retouching ...
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... Barber was . I realize I am dealing with artistic temperaments at both ends . Cordially etc. In as much as it was Barber's designs that were being replaced , Morgan could afford to be cordial ! The enclosed letter announced that the ...
... Barber was . I realize I am dealing with artistic temperaments at both ends . Cordially etc. In as much as it was Barber's designs that were being replaced , Morgan could afford to be cordial ! The enclosed letter announced that the ...
Contents
Continental Currency Coinage | 3 |
Chapter 4 | 39 |
Chapter 6 | 82 |
Copyright | |
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adopted alloy amendment American approved April artist assay Barber bill Boudinot Boulton Brenner bullion cent piece chief coiner circulation coinage Commission committee Congress copper copper coins copper-nickel currency Dear December denomination devices Director double eagle Eckfeldt engraver February five-cent piece Fraser Gaudens God we trust gold and silver gold coins Government grains half dime half dollar head House issue January Jefferson July Kennedy half dollar legal tender letter Liberty Linderman Longacre machine March McCulloh medal metal Mint's mints models Morris nickel obverse obverse and reverse patterns Patterson Peace dollar Peale Philadelphia Philadelphia Mint planchets Pollock present President proposed purchase quarter dollar received reduced relief replied reverse Robert Roosevelt Saint-Gaudens San Francisco Mint sculptor Secretary seignorage Senate silver coins silver dollar Sinnock Snowden specimens standard struck submitted subsidiary coins suggested three-cent piece trade dollar United Washington weight wrote