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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... circulation did so unofficially . For one thing , the issue of brass coins would have been con- trary to the intention of Congress , which was to suppress the circulation of base coppers . For another , the establishment of a mint could ...
... circulation did so unofficially . For one thing , the issue of brass coins would have been con- trary to the intention of Congress , which was to suppress the circulation of base coppers . For another , the establishment of a mint could ...
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... circulation as soon as they could be adequately replaced . Although this might be done after a year , he was willing to grant an additional one or two years to the circulation of Portuguese , English and French gold coins , and the ...
... circulation as soon as they could be adequately replaced . Although this might be done after a year , he was willing to grant an additional one or two years to the circulation of Portuguese , English and French gold coins , and the ...
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... circulation of small gold coins , and increase the prejudice already existing in favor of paper , from its lightness . Nobody will encumber himself with silver dollars , when he can obtain any substitute . Twenty are an encumbrance in a ...
... circulation of small gold coins , and increase the prejudice already existing in favor of paper , from its lightness . Nobody will encumber himself with silver dollars , when he can obtain any substitute . Twenty are an encumbrance in a ...
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