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... adopted to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another , and , consequently , it is now inseparable from the trade , commerce , and exchanges of the world . The history of money , in our own country , dates from the lignite ...
... adopted to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another , and , consequently , it is now inseparable from the trade , commerce , and exchanges of the world . The history of money , in our own country , dates from the lignite ...
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... adopted a national coinage of our own , cannot but be both entertaining and instructive . Temples , statues , triumphal arches , or any monuments of art , have been of vast importance in elucidating and testing the chronicles and ...
... adopted a national coinage of our own , cannot but be both entertaining and instructive . Temples , statues , triumphal arches , or any monuments of art , have been of vast importance in elucidating and testing the chronicles and ...
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... adopt the use of positive coins till long after their introduction into other countries . From the time of Abraham , however , to that of the Maccabees , about 144 years B. C. , they had , like other oriental nations , in addition to ...
... adopt the use of positive coins till long after their introduction into other countries . From the time of Abraham , however , to that of the Maccabees , about 144 years B. C. , they had , like other oriental nations , in addition to ...
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... adoption of the Saxon silver penny , in the laws of Æthelstan , where it is stated that 30,000 skeattæ are equal to £ 120 , which would make them about one twenty - fifth part less in value than a penny sterling . Of the origin of the ...
... adoption of the Saxon silver penny , in the laws of Æthelstan , where it is stated that 30,000 skeattæ are equal to £ 120 , which would make them about one twenty - fifth part less in value than a penny sterling . Of the origin of the ...
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... adopted for the first time , on English coins , during this reign ; first on the gold coins , and afterwards on the groats ; though it had appeared on the great seal since William I. , and on the coins of France since the time of ...
... adopted for the first time , on English coins , during this reign ; first on the gold coins , and afterwards on the groats ; though it had appeared on the great seal since William I. , and on the coins of France since the time of ...
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aborigines alloy AMERICA appearance assay AUCTORI CONNEC beam bearing bust of Washington cabinet carats CENT centre circle of dots coinage colony copper crown cupel currency denomination designs unaltered designs unchanged Device Device.-A bust Device.-The DIME eagle edge effigy emission England extremely rare fac-simile facing Figure Fillet-Festooned five varieties five-dollar piece four varieties George III Goddess of Liberty gold coins gotten grains hair HALF-CENT HALF-DIME HALF-DOLLAR HALF-EAGLE half-penny head laureated hence issued king laurel legend Legend.-LIBERTY Legend.-UNITED letter liberty pole Liberty seated liberty-cap lignite Lord Baltimore Massachusetts MEDALET metal NOVA CESAREA number coined obverse pattern piece penny planchet Plate XI Plate XVII Plenty plow preceding preserved proportion punctuation QUARTER-DOLLAR QUARTER-EAGLE reign reverse Reverse.-A scarce shield shillings silver coins specimens stamped struck surmounted three varieties THREE-DOLLAR PIECE type and five type and four type and three United States Mint VERMON weight wreath
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Page 13 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Page 227 - California," and of the twelfth section of the act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes...
Page 129 - The disorders in the existing currency, and especially the scarcity of small change, a scarcity so peculiarly distressing to the poorer classes, strongly recommend the carrying into immediate effect the resolution already entered into concerning the establishment of a Mint. Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists, together with the requisite apparatus.
Page 57 - to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin,' and it also declares that 'no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
Page 137 - GENERAL OF THE AMERICAN ARMIES 1775. RESIGNED 1783. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789.
Page 259 - Nothing to distinguish this but the punctuation, the effigy being of the old style. No. 12. Though the punctuation is the same as the preceding, it is a new type, as the workmanship differs from any of the whole series, the die being deeper, and hence the muscular development of feature surpasses any other issue. To distinguish it, I have called it the type Hercules. It is extremely rare, and was evidently the work of a superior artist of the period it was gotten up. AUCTORI CONNEC. Since the appearance...
Page 100 - My eyes have grown dim in the service of my country, but I never doubted her justice;" and the great dissatisfaction for want of immediate or undeveloped resources of every kind, which begat, and subsequently, openly showed itself in portions of New England...
Page 147 - ... who are under the control of the Director of the parent mint. The branches went into operation in the year 1838. Their coinage is uniform with that of the establishment at Philadelphia, being systematically tested there for approval. The whole mint establishment, thus constituted, is itself a bureau or branch of the Treasury Department of the general government, and is under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury. Its operations are annually reported through the President to Congress,...
Page 130 - ... at the close of the present session. In execution of the authority given by the Legislature measures have been taken for engaging some artists from abroad to aid in the establishment of our mint. Others have been employed at home. Provision has been made of the requisite buildings, and these are now putting into proper condition for the purposes of the establishment.
Page 12 - In Genesis (xxiii. 16) Abraham is represented as weighing out to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant...