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 69
... give it , you must be apprised of some facts . Congress , some time ago , authorized the President to take measures for procuring some artists from any place where they were to be had . It was known that a Mr. Drost , a Swiss , had made ...
... give it , you must be apprised of some facts . Congress , some time ago , authorized the President to take measures for procuring some artists from any place where they were to be had . It was known that a Mr. Drost , a Swiss , had made ...
Page 138
... give ample security for the performance of the contract . Copper for the difference in weight . Small silver for three percent . Dollars for two and a half , Gold for one and a half , on the values Provided , the United States will give ...
... give ample security for the performance of the contract . Copper for the difference in weight . Small silver for three percent . Dollars for two and a half , Gold for one and a half , on the values Provided , the United States will give ...
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... give the gold a yellow color , the second with acid and alkali to give a purple - gold color , and the third with just alkali to give an orange color . Hubbell gave detailed directions for the last two processes . In a letter to acting ...
... give the gold a yellow color , the second with acid and alkali to give a purple - gold color , and the third with just alkali to give an orange color . Hubbell gave detailed directions for the last two processes . In a letter to acting ...
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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