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 241
... submitted Pollock's letter and bill to Senator Fessenden , chairman of the finance committee . However , no action was taken , and on March 16 , Pollock again wrote to Chase : Sir : The continuance of the cent coinage is now not only a ...
... submitted Pollock's letter and bill to Senator Fessenden , chairman of the finance committee . However , no action was taken , and on March 16 , Pollock again wrote to Chase : Sir : The continuance of the cent coinage is now not only a ...
Page 288
... submitted are such a decided improvement upon the present designs of the silver coins of the United States as to be worthy of adoption by the Government . We would respectfully recommend that the services of one or more artists dis ...
... submitted are such a decided improvement upon the present designs of the silver coins of the United States as to be worthy of adoption by the Government . We would respectfully recommend that the services of one or more artists dis ...
Page 371
... submitted models of the obverse and sketches of the reverse to acting Director Leland Howard , who sent them on the 12th to the Commission of Fine Arts . Ten days later , chairman of the Commission , Gilmore Clarke , replied : In the ...
... submitted models of the obverse and sketches of the reverse to acting Director Leland Howard , who sent them on the 12th to the Commission of Fine Arts . Ten days later , chairman of the Commission , Gilmore Clarke , replied : In the ...
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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