American Journal of Numismatics, and Bulletin of the American Numismatic and Archæological Society, Volumes 1-2American Numismatic and Archæological Society, 1866 |
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101 WILLIAM 13 stars Addenda adjourned AMERICAN JOURNAL AMERICAN NUMISMATIC ANTHON Antiquarian Antiquities ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AUTOGRAPHS Bangs Boston Numismatic Society bracteates Brass bronze Brooklyn BULLETIN bust cabinet Castorland Catalogue cent pieces CHAS coinage coins and medals collection collectors Committee Copper Copperheads Corresponding Covent Garden crown DEALER denarius Dollar donation Eagle EDWARD COGAN elected ENGRAVINGS exergue exhibited Eyck five cents gold Indian head inscription interest issued JOURNAL OF NUMISMATICS legend letter Levick Lincoln Medal lots Merwin Messrs metal Mickley NUMISMATIC AND ARCHEOLOGICAL Numismatists obverse owner paper Perine Philadelphia PORTO BELLO possession present President published purchase QUERIES rare received Regular Meeting Rhode Island Roman Secretary shield ships Sigel silver Similar to reverse specimens Stamps STREET struck Ten Eyck tion tokens TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES United United States Mint VERNON Washington William St wreath York
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Page 12 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 3 - ... the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may cause the motto "In God we trust...
Page 42 - That there shall be from time to time struck and coined at the said Mint, coins of gold, silver and copper, of the following denominations, values and descriptions, viz.: *Eagles — each to be of the value of ten dollars or units, and to contain two hundred and forty-seven grains and...
Page 42 - That so soon as practicable after the passage of this act there shall be coined at the mint of the United States a three-cent piece, composed of copper and nickel in such proportions, not exceeding twenty-five per centum of nickel, as shall be determined by the director of the mint, the standard weight of which shall be thirty grains, with no greater deviation than four grains to each piece...
Page 42 - That from and after the passage of this act, the standard weight of the cent coined at the Mint shall be...
Page 28 - That the said coins shall be a legal tender in any payment, the one-cent coin to the amount of ten cents, and the two-cent coin to the amount of twenty cents; and it shall be lawful to pay out said coins in exchange for the lawful currency of the United States, (except cents or half cents issued...
Page 28 - An act relating to foreign coins and, the coinage of cents at the mint of the
Page 55 - Dresses, when they were most cruelly insulted, beat, and abused, and what Money they had, taken from them ; an Infant Grandchild in a most barbarous Manner thrown on the Ground : at last, in their Fright and Distress, they ran different Ways in the Woods, where they remained till Day-Light, exposed to every Inclemency. Five White Men were made Prisoners, and two Infant Children consumed in the Flames. The whole exhibited such a Scene of Savage Barbarity as is scarcely to be met with in History or...
Page 31 - I do not see how the reins of government are to be managed, or how the Union of the States can be much longer preserved.
Page 3 - In the absence of the President the meeting was called to order by the Secretary at 7:05 pm, and Dr.