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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... Washington wrote to Jefferson : 11 " The Attorney General will , I presume , draw the Deed for the Lot for the Mint . The purchase of it , I approve of . " In a letter to Washington , on July 9 , Rittenhouse announced his decision to ...
... Washington wrote to Jefferson : 11 " The Attorney General will , I presume , draw the Deed for the Lot for the Mint . The purchase of it , I approve of . " In a letter to Washington , on July 9 , Rittenhouse announced his decision to ...
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... Washington as a special object of veneration . Longacre refused to discard his Indian head cent , but in making patterns for a five - cent piece he modeled two different Washington heads as well as a head of Lincoln . On May 28 , 1866 ...
... Washington as a special object of veneration . Longacre refused to discard his Indian head cent , but in making patterns for a five - cent piece he modeled two different Washington heads as well as a head of Lincoln . On May 28 , 1866 ...
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An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 28 The Washington Quarter IN HONOR OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTH BI- CENTENNIAL , the Treasury Department , together with the Commission of Fine Arts and the Washington ...
An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 28 The Washington Quarter IN HONOR OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTH BI- CENTENNIAL , the Treasury Department , together with the Commission of Fine Arts and the Washington ...
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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