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Illustrated history of the United States mint: with a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present time — John Shaqi

Illustrated history of the United States mint: with a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present time

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Illustrated history of the United States mint: with a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present time

Coinage -- United States; Mints -- United States

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                           ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

                                  OF THE

                            UNITED STATES MINT

                      WITH A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF

                            AMERICAN COINAGE,

            From the earliest period to the present time. The
               Process of Melting, Refining, Assaying, and
                 Coining Gold and Silver fully described:

                      WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF

   Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush,
       John Jay Knox, James P. Kimball, Daniel M. Fox, and the Mint
            Officers from its foundation to the present time.

                            TO WHICH ARE ADDED

                         A GLOSSARY OF MINT TERMS

                                 AND THE

                          LATEST OFFICIAL TABLES

                                  OF THE

           Annual Products of Gold and Silver in the different
               States, and Foreign Countries, with Monetary
                        Statistics of all Nations.

       ILLUSTRATED with PHOTOTYPES, STEEL PLATE PORTRAITS and WOOD
     ENGRAVINGS, with NUMEROUS PLATES of Photographic Reproductions
       of RARE AMERICAN COINS, and Price List of their numismatic
                                 value.

             _New Revised Edition, Edited by the Publisher._

                              PHILADELPHIA:
                       GEORGE G. EVANS, PUBLISHER.
                                  1888.

                              Copyrighted by
                             GEORGE G. EVANS.
                                  1885.

                           Recopyrighted, 1888.

                             DUNLAP & CLARKE,
                        PRINTERS AND BOOK BINDERS.
                          819-21 FILBERT STREET,
                              PHILADELPHIA.




INDEX.

  Adjusting room, 32

  American coinage, history of from 1792 to 1888
    gold coins, 142
    silver coins, 142

  Amount coined in fiscal year, 136, 141
    of coin in the United States, 142

  Ancient coining, 2
    Greek coins, 44
    Persian coins, 45
    Roman coins, 46

  Annealing furnaces, 29

  Architecture indebted to coins, 5

  Assay, process of, 23

  Assayers of Mint, list of, 118

  Assaying gold, 24
    silver, 25
    rooms, 24


  Barber, Charles E., Mint Engraver, 127
    William, ”, 126

  Bars manufactured at Mints during fiscal year, 136, 141

  Bland dollar, history of, 62

  Bond of indemnity signed by employees of first Mint, 1799, 17

  Booth, James C., Melter and Refiner, 123

  Boudinot, Elias, 102

  Bosbyshell, Col. O. C., Coiner, 116

  Boyd, N. B., Assistant Melter and Refiner, 124

  Brazilian coins, 58

  Bullion deposit and purchase of, 132
    for the silver dollar coinage, 1887, 132
    on hand at the Mints, 142

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Illustrated history of the United States mint: with a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present time

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