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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... Morris plan was not only ingenious , but the most cumbersome scheme for coinage ever devised by Man . It seems to have been received with little enthusiasm , and ( Robert ) Morris , sensing the reaction , left it to trail un ...
... Morris plan was not only ingenious , but the most cumbersome scheme for coinage ever devised by Man . It seems to have been received with little enthusiasm , and ( Robert ) Morris , sensing the reaction , left it to trail un ...
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... Morris , and the payment re- corded on April 17 was apparently a reimbursement for bills drawn against the former . On April 2 , 1783 Morris noted in his diary that Dudley had delivered to him " A piece of Silver Coin , being the first ...
... Morris , and the payment re- corded on April 17 was apparently a reimbursement for bills drawn against the former . On April 2 , 1783 Morris noted in his diary that Dudley had delivered to him " A piece of Silver Coin , being the first ...
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... Morris had written earlier , " like so many other important matters " the business was " retarded by the tediousness of the States in supplying the Continental Treasury . " 19 Morris ' disappointment over the failure is evident from his ...
... Morris had written earlier , " like so many other important matters " the business was " retarded by the tediousness of the States in supplying the Continental Treasury . " 19 Morris ' disappointment over the failure is evident from his ...
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