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 13
... bullion should be accepted in the sale of bank subscriptions , and thereafter , if necessary , coined . Apparently contemplating a seignorage , he wrote : " The bank may be allowed to purchase plate and bullion and coin money allowing ...
... bullion should be accepted in the sale of bank subscriptions , and thereafter , if necessary , coined . Apparently contemplating a seignorage , he wrote : " The bank may be allowed to purchase plate and bullion and coin money allowing ...
Page 84
... bullion , and when deposits were lean , the institution was idle . Deposits of gold and silver were brought to the receiving room on the main floor of the Seventh Street building . Often the bullion took the form of ingots , but it was ...
... bullion , and when deposits were lean , the institution was idle . Deposits of gold and silver were brought to the receiving room on the main floor of the Seventh Street building . Often the bullion took the form of ingots , but it was ...
Page 133
... bullion . Boudinot asked for the appointment of a permanent melter and refiner , 11 and the establishment of a $ 10,000 bullion fund . The bullion was to be pur- chased at market price and kept in the vaults until there was a sufficient ...
... bullion . Boudinot asked for the appointment of a permanent melter and refiner , 11 and the establishment of a $ 10,000 bullion fund . The bullion was to be pur- chased at market price and kept in the vaults until there was a sufficient ...
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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