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 36
... possible , which I presume your Board may very well remember , but which you thought proper should be confined to the periods stipulated as per Contract . Not being able to accomplish my object as to the first periods it became a duty ...
... possible , which I presume your Board may very well remember , but which you thought proper should be confined to the periods stipulated as per Contract . Not being able to accomplish my object as to the first periods it became a duty ...
Page 314
... possible for you to come on to the mint ? I am sure that the mint authorities now really desire to do whatever they can , and if it would be possible for you to go there I could arrange to have some of the Tiffany people there at the ...
... possible for you to come on to the mint ? I am sure that the mint authorities now really desire to do whatever they can , and if it would be possible for you to go there I could arrange to have some of the Tiffany people there at the ...
Page 316
... possible way even to working day and night and Sundays to expedite this new coinage , and in the case of making the first reduction Mr. Saint Gaudens reported that it would take six months to get it made in Paris , while I made it in ...
... possible way even to working day and night and Sundays to expedite this new coinage , and in the case of making the first reduction Mr. Saint Gaudens reported that it would take six months to get it made in Paris , while I made it in ...
Contents
Continental Currency Coinage | 3 |
Chapter 4 | 39 |
Chapter 6 | 82 |
Copyright | |
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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