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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... contract coinage . Three of these demanded payment on delivery in specie or good bills , and were rejected because of the " embarrassments of the Public Finances . " The remaining two were submitted to a committee of Congress for ...
... contract coinage . Three of these demanded payment on delivery in specie or good bills , and were rejected because of the " embarrassments of the Public Finances . " The remaining two were submitted to a committee of Congress for ...
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... contract , his proportion of advantage . It is but justice to Mr. D. to acknowledge that in no stage of my application did he interfere , after the understanding between us , nor can he be chargeable with planning and arranging in any ...
... contract , his proportion of advantage . It is but justice to Mr. D. to acknowledge that in no stage of my application did he interfere , after the understanding between us , nor can he be chargeable with planning and arranging in any ...
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... contract , and two weeks later a committee , appointed to inquire fully into the department of finance , reported : There are two contracts made by the Board of Treasury with James Jarvis , the one for coining three hundred tons of ...
... contract , and two weeks later a committee , appointed to inquire fully into the department of finance , reported : There are two contracts made by the Board of Treasury with James Jarvis , the one for coining three hundred tons of ...
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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