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 198
... gold coins will be and so will remain as long as they are permitted to circulate among the people , because of the greater cheapness and safety of their transportations ; but if the gold bill has any sensible effect on the currency of ...
... gold coins will be and so will remain as long as they are permitted to circulate among the people , because of the greater cheapness and safety of their transportations ; but if the gold bill has any sensible effect on the currency of ...
Page 201
... gold dollars . On March 14 , and again on March 23 , 1836 Director Robert Patterson ( who opposed the innovation ) submitted patterns for a dollar to Secretary Woodbury . Provision for a gold dollar was included in a draft of the Mint ...
... gold dollars . On March 14 , and again on March 23 , 1836 Director Robert Patterson ( who opposed the innovation ) submitted patterns for a dollar to Secretary Woodbury . Provision for a gold dollar was included in a draft of the Mint ...
Page 203
... gold dollar , three of standard gold and three of gilt silver . The form proposed in this article to which you called my attention is very objectionable . So also is the plan devised in England in which a silver coin has a gold plug in ...
... gold dollar , three of standard gold and three of gilt silver . The form proposed in this article to which you called my attention is very objectionable . So also is the plan devised in England in which a silver coin has a gold plug in ...
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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