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 DescribedGeorge G. Evans, 1885 - 162 頁 |
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Act of April Act of February Act of January alloy AMERICA amount appointed arrow heads assay offices Assayer bars Bois bronze bullion bust Cabinet CHAIN CENT circulation Congress copper currency deposit DIME Director E PLURIBUS UNUM Eckfeldt edge Engraver Exergue facing left facing right February 12 Fineness changed George GOD WE TRUST gold and silver grains Greek HALF CENT half dollar inclusive inscribed E PLURIBUS inscribed LIBERTY issued January 18 Jefferson John Jay Knox July Legend lepton Liberty head medals Melter Melter and Refiner melting metal mints NOVA CONSTELLATIO Obverse olive branch ounces Philadelphia Philadelphia Mint planchets PLATE PLURIBUS UNUM President Reverse Rosa Americana Secretary SHEKEL shilling silver coins silver dollars sixteen stars Snowden specimens standard Superintendent thirteen stars three arrows Total Trade Dollar Treasury United States Mint United States shield WASHINGTON CENT Weight changed Widow's Mite wings wreath WREATH CENT York
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第 70 頁 - 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.
第 16 頁 - ... through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or persons who shall be employed at the said mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwise with a fraudulent intent, and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals which shall at any time be committed...
第 79 頁 - April 2, 1792; weight, 270 grains; fineness, .916%; weight changed, act of June 28, 1834, to 258 grains: fineness changed, act of June 38.
第 118 頁 - The Congress shall have power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures, ... to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
第 143 頁 - The foregoing estimation, made by the Director of the Mint, of the value of the foreign coins above mentioned, I hereby proclaim to be...
第 84 頁 - January 18, 1837, to 41 ¿ grains. Fineness changed, act of January 18, 1837, to .900. Weight changed, act of February 21, 1853, to 38.4 grains. Weight changed, act of February 12, 1873, to 2¿ grams, or 38.58 grains.
第 85 頁 - Five-Cent (nickel) — Authorized to be coined, act of May 16. 1866: weight. 77.16 grains: composed of 75 per cent copper and 25 per cent nickel. Total amount coined to June 30.
第 94 頁 - Having received these suggestions, the present bill has been framed, and it is believed to comprise within the compass of eight or ten pages of the Revised Statutes every important provision contained in more than sixty different enactments upon the mint, assay offices, and coinage of the United States, which are the result of nearly eighty years of legislation upon these subjects.
第 81 頁 - January 18, 1837, to 412% grains. Fineness changed, act of January 18, 1837, to .900. Coinage discontinued, act of February 12, 1873. Total amount coined to February 12, 1873, $8,031,238. Coinage reauthorized, act of February 28, 1878.
第 62 頁 - DOLLAR. Authorized to be coined, Act of April 2, 1792. Weight, 416 grains, standard silver; fineness, 892.4; equivalent to 371J grains of fine silver, with 44| grains alloy of pure copper.