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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... dollar but also a double eagle . On Monday last , we stated that the silver dollar , the coinage of which has been suspended since 1805 , was soon to be issued from the mint . We exceedingly regret this , because the silver dollar is a ...
... dollar but also a double eagle . On Monday last , we stated that the silver dollar , the coinage of which has been suspended since 1805 , was soon to be issued from the mint . We exceedingly regret this , because the silver dollar is a ...
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... silver dollar , it had long ceased to circulate within the country , and its discontinuation by law merely ... dollar ? " SHERMAN ( chairman of the finance committee ) : " I will answer the Senator from New York , that since 1853 the use ...
... silver dollar , it had long ceased to circulate within the country , and its discontinuation by law merely ... dollar ? " SHERMAN ( chairman of the finance committee ) : " I will answer the Senator from New York , that since 1853 the use ...
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... silver . " On March 9 , 1878 he declared : In connection with the charge that I advocated the bill which demonetized the standard silver dollar ... silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins as were those ...
... silver . " On March 9 , 1878 he declared : In connection with the charge that I advocated the bill which demonetized the standard silver dollar ... silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins as were those ...
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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