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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... Half Dollar cast in hard bronze and have yester- day forwarded it to Mr. Barber at the Philadelphia Mint . I have worked steadily upon the obverse of the Half Dollar and of the Dime but they will not be in shape for your final ...
... Half Dollar cast in hard bronze and have yester- day forwarded it to Mr. Barber at the Philadelphia Mint . I have worked steadily upon the obverse of the Half Dollar and of the Dime but they will not be in shape for your final ...
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An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 32 The Kennedy Half Dollar THE FOLLOWING IS A REMINISCENCE of Gilroy Rob- erts , retired chief engraver of the Mint.1 Mr. Roberts modeled the obverse of the Kennedy half ...
An Illustrated History from 1776 to the Present Don Taxay. CHAPTER 32 The Kennedy Half Dollar THE FOLLOWING IS A REMINISCENCE of Gilroy Rob- erts , retired chief engraver of the Mint.1 Mr. Roberts modeled the obverse of the Kennedy half ...
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... half dollar in January , 1964 , only about four weeks away . This seemed almost an impossibility , but the fact that we had , on hand , large models for both sides made the problem less insurmountable . There was still a great amount of ...
... half dollar in January , 1964 , only about four weeks away . This seemed almost an impossibility , but the fact that we had , on hand , large models for both sides made the problem less insurmountable . There was still a great amount of ...
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