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 227
... dime and half dime , and a plain wreath substituted . The adoption of the devices now recom- mended will enable us to introduce a uniformity into the silver coin , as the same head and wreath on the specimen half dollar is well adapted ...
... dime and half dime , and a plain wreath substituted . The adoption of the devices now recom- mended will enable us to introduce a uniformity into the silver coin , as the same head and wreath on the specimen half dollar is well adapted ...
Page 348
... Dime but they will not be in shape for your final inspection tomorrow . Though I am pushing the work as rapidly as possible , it becomes quite apparent that the four models for the Half Dollar and the Dime cannot be completed for the ...
... Dime but they will not be in shape for your final inspection tomorrow . Though I am pushing the work as rapidly as possible , it becomes quite apparent that the four models for the Half Dollar and the Dime cannot be completed for the ...
Page 371
An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 30 The Roosevelt Dime IN BRINGING OUT THE ROOSEVELT DIME , the Mint broke a tradition of nearly four decades by assigning the modeling to its own engraver . The work thus ...
An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 30 The Roosevelt Dime IN BRINGING OUT THE ROOSEVELT DIME , the Mint broke a tradition of nearly four decades by assigning the modeling to its own engraver . The work thus ...
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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