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 316
... Eagle coin . In regards to the Double Eagle , you will remember that dies have been made from models furnished by Mr. Saint Gaudens and coins struck as medals and sub- mitted to the Director with a full statement of the impossibility of ...
... Eagle coin . In regards to the Double Eagle , you will remember that dies have been made from models furnished by Mr. Saint Gaudens and coins struck as medals and sub- mitted to the Director with a full statement of the impossibility of ...
Page 317
... eagles of the last model . We have $ 100,000 in eagle blanks ready for coinage and a larger amount in strips and unadjusted blanks and are therefore ready to proceed with this coinage at short notice . I think we will be severely ...
... eagles of the last model . We have $ 100,000 in eagle blanks ready for coinage and a larger amount in strips and unadjusted blanks and are therefore ready to proceed with this coinage at short notice . I think we will be severely ...
Page 358
... eagle will be empty , and , as it were , at rest . As finally issued , the eagle held an olive branch in its talons . One can hardly find a more beautiful rendering of an eagle though it is different from that on the MacNeil or Weinman ...
... eagle will be empty , and , as it were , at rest . As finally issued , the eagle held an olive branch in its talons . One can hardly find a more beautiful rendering of an eagle though it is different from that on the MacNeil or Weinman ...
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