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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... Senate knew his delicacy would not permit him to pass such a one . They have therefore extended the compliment to all his successors . We are under obligations to the great man now our President ; but a lover of liberty and friend to ...
... Senate knew his delicacy would not permit him to pass such a one . They have therefore extended the compliment to all his successors . We are under obligations to the great man now our President ; but a lover of liberty and friend to ...
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... Senator Gwin on December 29 , 1852 and in- vestigated by the Senate and Secretary of the Treasury Corwin ; and finally confessed to , on January 17 , 1853 by a red - faced Eckert who nevertheless de- fended the Mint's right to filch ...
... Senator Gwin on December 29 , 1852 and in- vestigated by the Senate and Secretary of the Treasury Corwin ; and finally confessed to , on January 17 , 1853 by a red - faced Eckert who nevertheless de- fended the Mint's right to filch ...
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... Senate finance committee R. M. T. Hunter suggested the possibility of coining dollars , halves , and quarters of mixed gold and silver in equal values . Later in the month the committee , in avowed desperation , reported a fiduciary ...
... Senate finance committee R. M. T. Hunter suggested the possibility of coining dollars , halves , and quarters of mixed gold and silver in equal values . Later in the month the committee , in avowed desperation , reported a fiduciary ...
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 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 obverse and reverse 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