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 DescribedG. G. Evans, 1888 - 160页 A complete description of American coinage from the earliest period to the present time. |
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Act of April Act of February Act of January alloy AMERICA amount appointed assay office Assayer Bois bronze bullion bust Cabinet CHAIN CENT Chief Coiner circulation City coinage Congress copper crowned cupel currency deposited Director E PLURIBUS UNUM eagle Eckfeldt edge England Engraver Exergue facing left facing right February 12 fifteen stars Fineness changed fiscal year 1887 George GOD WE TRUST gold and silver grains Greek HALF CENT half dollar head to left inclusive issued January 18 Jefferson John Jay Knox July Legend Liberty head Linderman medals melted Melter Melter and Refiner metal Mints and Assay National nickel NOVA CONSTELLATIO Obverse olive branch ounce Philadelphia Philadelphia Mint pieces planchets PLURIBUS UNUM portrait President Reverse Rosa Americana scroll Secretary SHEKEL shilling silver coin silver dollar Snowden specimens standard Superintendent talon thirteen stars Total Trade Dollar Treasury United States Mint Weight changed wreath York
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第16页 - ... 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131页 - 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83页 - 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96页 - 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62页 - 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.
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第109页 - ... district, unless proper free transportation is furnished, he may attend any more convenient high school in another district, without the consent of the board of school directors of the district in which he resides, and the district in which he resides shall be liable to the district whose high school he attends for the cost of his tuition, textbooks, and supplies, as provided for in this act.
第24页 - ... of silver; and this is accordingly the quantity used. It is true that there is already some silver in the alloy, but a little excess over the quantity required for the quartation does no injury to the process. The lead used for the cupellation is kept prepared in thin sheets, cut into ' square pieces, which should each weigh about ten times as much as the gold under assay. The lead is now rolled into the form of a hollow cone ; and into this are introduced the assay gold and the quartation silver,...
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