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 212
... fact in- duces a habit of acquiescence ; which unfortunately for him , is sometimes con- strued to his disadvantage . As for instance , when a design from another hand is placed before him ; the defects of which may be apparent to his ...
... fact in- duces a habit of acquiescence ; which unfortunately for him , is sometimes con- strued to his disadvantage . As for instance , when a design from another hand is placed before him ; the defects of which may be apparent to his ...
Page 261
... fact that it would demonetize the silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins as were those distinguished Senators , Messrs . Blaine and Vorhees , who were then members of the House . Even more incredible ...
... fact that it would demonetize the silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins as were those distinguished Senators , Messrs . Blaine and Vorhees , who were then members of the House . Even more incredible ...
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... fact that changes in the machine - in the effort to accommodate it to the new coin - had already been made ; and I was impressed with the fact that the inventors were not at all at the end of their possibilities- so that a solution may ...
... fact that changes in the machine - in the effort to accommodate it to the new coin - had already been made ; and I was impressed with the fact that the inventors were not at all at the end of their possibilities- so that a solution may ...
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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