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 307
... artists when periodically redesigning its coins . This provision , together with the appointment of the Commission of Fine Arts as an advisory body , has generally enhanced the artistic merit of American coinage.1 The remaining chapters ...
... artists when periodically redesigning its coins . This provision , together with the appointment of the Commission of Fine Arts as an advisory body , has generally enhanced the artistic merit of American coinage.1 The remaining chapters ...
Page 359
... Arts Commission . Neither the Commission of Fine Arts nor Director Baker seem to have pre- vailed upon the self - willed Mr. Morgan . Not only did the engraver make num- erous minor changes in De Francisci's models , but ( according to ...
... Arts Commission . Neither the Commission of Fine Arts nor Director Baker seem to have pre- vailed upon the self - willed Mr. Morgan . Not only did the engraver make num- erous minor changes in De Francisci's models , but ( according to ...
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... Arts Commission must say it is O.K. The Director of the Mint , Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross , must nod and tell Secretary Morgenthau it's all right . When and if the Secretary says all's well , the design goes to the Philadelphia Mint ...
... Arts Commission must say it is O.K. The Director of the Mint , Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross , must nod and tell Secretary Morgenthau it's all right . When and if the Secretary says all's well , the design goes to the Philadelphia Mint ...
Contents
The 1776 Continental Currency Coinage | 3 |
Proposals of Franklin Morris and Jefferson | 11 |
Experiments in Contract Coinage | 26 |
Copyright | |
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adopted alloy American April artist assay assayer Bank Barber bill Boudinot Boulton bullion cent piece chief coiner circulation coinage Commission committee Congress Continental Currency contract copper copper coins cupellation currency December denominations devices Director double eagle Drost Eckfeldt engraver establishment February five-cent piece Fraser GOD WE TRUST gold and silver gold coins gold dollar grains half dime half dollar head House issue January Jarvis Jefferson July legal tender letter Liberty Linderman Longacre machine March McCulloh medal metal Mint's mints models Morris National nickel obverse operations patterns Patterson Peace dollar Peale Peale's Philadelphia Philadelphia Mint planchets Pollock present President proposed purchase quarter dollar received reduced relief replied reverse Rittenhouse Robert Robert Scot Saint-Gaudens Secretary seignorage Senate silver coins silver dollar Sinnock Snowden Spanish dollar specimens standard struck submitted three-cent piece trade dollar Treasury United United States Mint Voigt Washington weight wrote