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 123
... less than two - hundred ounces or substandard gold of less than twenty ounces . An annual occurrence which disrupted the Mint as it did everything else in Philadelphia was the visitation of yellow fever . Those who were able moved from ...
... less than two - hundred ounces or substandard gold of less than twenty ounces . An annual occurrence which disrupted the Mint as it did everything else in Philadelphia was the visitation of yellow fever . Those who were able moved from ...
Page 126
... less than half dollars . Small Spanish Silver coins are extremely plenty , I believe in most of the com- mercial towns , and as their nominal and circulating value is considerably above their real intrinsic value , 12 they will neither ...
... less than half dollars . Small Spanish Silver coins are extremely plenty , I believe in most of the com- mercial towns , and as their nominal and circulating value is considerably above their real intrinsic value , 12 they will neither ...
Page 143
... less discreditable establishment . Unless therefore , the present short session should seem to you an unpropitious period , will you please to take the measures relative therefor , which may seem best . Something more than a simple ...
... less discreditable establishment . Unless therefore , the present short session should seem to you an unpropitious period , will you please to take the measures relative therefor , which may seem best . Something more than a simple ...
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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