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 222
... devices or inscriptions as will distinguish the coins of the old from the new issue , and I have to request of you to make such suggestions as appear to you pertinent to that object . It may perhaps be thought necessary , by the ...
... devices or inscriptions as will distinguish the coins of the old from the new issue , and I have to request of you to make such suggestions as appear to you pertinent to that object . It may perhaps be thought necessary , by the ...
Page 223
... devices for the fiduciary coins by contract with a private artist . The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the size and devices of the new silver coins ; . . . and that , to procure such devices , as also the ...
... devices for the fiduciary coins by contract with a private artist . The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to regulate the size and devices of the new silver coins ; . . . and that , to procure such devices , as also the ...
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... devices . The inferiority of our coinage to the same kind of work by almost every other advanced nation of the earth , as well as to the well - known work of numerous able designers in relief at home , seems to be perceived by all who ...
... devices . The inferiority of our coinage to the same kind of work by almost every other advanced nation of the earth , as well as to the well - known work of numerous able designers in relief at home , seems to be perceived by all who ...
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