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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Page 96
... February 9 , 1795 the Mint possessed only one milling machine which was operated by a single hand . The report said that the machine was to have been powered by horses , and that when these were obtained , its production would equal ...
... February 9 , 1795 the Mint possessed only one milling machine which was operated by a single hand . The report said that the machine was to have been powered by horses , and that when these were obtained , its production would equal ...
Page 313
... February 11 , replied : Dear Mr. President : I have received your letter of February the eighth regard- ing the Indian feather head - dress in its application to the one - cent piece . I have already begun the trial in the way you ...
... February 11 , replied : Dear Mr. President : I have received your letter of February the eighth regard- ing the Indian feather head - dress in its application to the one - cent piece . I have already begun the trial in the way you ...
Page 345
... February 3 , Hobbs sent Roberts a long list of changes which , he insisted , would be necessary to satisfy the coin detector . The bewildered Fraser was thereupon called to a new conference , this time with Hobbs and Reith . The latter ...
... February 3 , Hobbs sent Roberts a long list of changes which , he insisted , would be necessary to satisfy the coin detector . The bewildered Fraser was thereupon called to a new conference , this time with Hobbs and Reith . The latter ...
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