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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... Silver Dollar Gold Dollar Coin Ratio Mint Ratio ( Reconstructed ) Fine Grains Fine Grains ### 123 # 1 # 2 # 3 375.64 24.6268 1 : 15.256 1 : 15.47 350.09 23.79 1 : 14.749 1 : 14.97 521.73 34.782 1:15 1 : 15.22 On August 8 , Congress ...
... Silver Dollar Gold Dollar Coin Ratio Mint Ratio ( Reconstructed ) Fine Grains Fine Grains ### 123 # 1 # 2 # 3 375.64 24.6268 1 : 15.256 1 : 15.47 350.09 23.79 1 : 14.749 1 : 14.97 521.73 34.782 1:15 1 : 15.22 On August 8 , Congress ...
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... silver dollar , it had long ceased to circulate within the country , and its discontinuation by law merely ... dollar ? " SHERMAN ( chairman of the finance committee ) : " I will answer the Senator from New York , that since 1853 the use ...
... silver dollar , it had long ceased to circulate within the country , and its discontinuation by law merely ... dollar ? " SHERMAN ( chairman of the finance committee ) : " I will answer the Senator from New York , that since 1853 the use ...
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... silver . " On March 9 , 1878 he declared : In connection with the charge that I advocated the bill which demonetized the standard silver dollar ... silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins as were those ...
... silver . " On March 9 , 1878 he declared : In connection with the charge that I advocated the bill which demonetized the standard silver dollar ... silver dollar or of its dropping the silver dollar from our system of coins as were those ...
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