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 260
... standard , avoiding the useless expense of coining the dollar for the same purpose . To which Kelley added : It is impossible to retain the double standard . The values of gold and silver con- tinually fluctuate . . . Hence all ...
... standard , avoiding the useless expense of coining the dollar for the same purpose . To which Kelley added : It is impossible to retain the double standard . The values of gold and silver con- tinually fluctuate . . . Hence all ...
Page 261
... standard silver dollar and the trade dollar . Never having heard until a long time after its enactment into law of the substitution in the Senate of the section which dropped the standard dollar , I profess to know nothing of its ...
... standard silver dollar and the trade dollar . Never having heard until a long time after its enactment into law of the substitution in the Senate of the section which dropped the standard dollar , I profess to know nothing of its ...
Page 272
... standard , make it impossible to adopt an international ratio between the two metals . The con- ference adjourned on ... standard silver . He said a melter and refiner could slip him standard silver ingots , even by error , and that a ...
... standard , make it impossible to adopt an international ratio between the two metals . The con- ference adjourned on ... standard silver . He said a melter and refiner could slip him standard silver ingots , even by error , and that 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