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 140
... replied , and there is no evidence that Voigt ever broached the subject again . With the new year , a gleam of hope touched the Mint . On January 10 , 1803 , Representative Gregg suggested that if the Mint's lots could be sold to ...
... replied , and there is no evidence that Voigt ever broached the subject again . With the new year , a gleam of hope touched the Mint . On January 10 , 1803 , Representative Gregg suggested that if the Mint's lots could be sold to ...
Page 309
... replied on the 22nd : Dear Mr. President : Thank you for your letter of the 14th and the return of the book on coins . I can perfectly well use the Indian head - dress on the figure of Liberty . It should be very handsome . I have been ...
... replied on the 22nd : Dear Mr. President : Thank you for your letter of the 14th and the return of the book on coins . I can perfectly well use the Indian head - dress on the figure of Liberty . It should be very handsome . I have been ...
Page 314
... replied that a bad reduction could be made from a good machine , and that Barber was probably not well enough acquainted with the mechanism . Barber was not aware that Hering had pro- cured from Mr. Janvier three superior reductions of ...
... replied that a bad reduction could be made from a good machine , and that Barber was probably not well enough acquainted with the mechanism . Barber was not aware that Hering had pro- cured from Mr. Janvier three superior reductions of ...
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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