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 223
... devices for the fiduciary coins by contract with a private artist . The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the size and devices of the new silver coins ; . . . and that , to procure such devices , as also the ...
... devices for the fiduciary coins by contract with a private artist . The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the size and devices of the new silver coins ; . . . and that , to procure such devices , as also the ...
Page 227
... devices on the silver seems to be a solecism although sanctioned by long usage . The silver coin has become a subsidiary coinage . . . a mere matter of change , not being legal tender beyond a limited amount ; this consideration renders ...
... devices on the silver seems to be a solecism although sanctioned by long usage . The silver coin has become a subsidiary coinage . . . a mere matter of change , not being legal tender beyond a limited amount ; this consideration renders ...
Page 240
... devices , shall be composed of 95 per cent . copper ; remainder , tin and zinc in suitable proportions ... Again , on December 8 , Pollock wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Chase : Sir : In my last annual report I recommended the ...
... devices , shall be composed of 95 per cent . copper ; remainder , tin and zinc in suitable proportions ... Again , on December 8 , Pollock wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Chase : Sir : In my last annual report I recommended the ...
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