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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... necessary Monies for my operation were to arise , there were yet difficulties to encounter of a different nature . In order to inspire the necessary confidence to entitle me to my Bonds , obtain- able only by some one , or more of my ...
... necessary Monies for my operation were to arise , there were yet difficulties to encounter of a different nature . In order to inspire the necessary confidence to entitle me to my Bonds , obtain- able only by some one , or more of my ...
Page 57
... necessary at the same time to give some idea of the extent to which this undertaking is to be carried that Drost may know how many balanciers & what other instruments may be requisite . He thinks nine or ten will be necessary , being ...
... necessary at the same time to give some idea of the extent to which this undertaking is to be carried that Drost may know how many balanciers & what other instruments may be requisite . He thinks nine or ten will be necessary , being ...
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... necessary to prepare the proper machines for coining copper . He thinks Voigt perfectly equal to the duties of the coiner . He is no engraver himself , and it is therefore proposed that he shall consider the cost of engraving dies as a ...
... necessary to prepare the proper machines for coining copper . He thinks Voigt perfectly equal to the duties of the coiner . He is no engraver himself , and it is therefore proposed that he shall consider the cost of engraving dies as a ...
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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