Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 98
for coins, especially in new countries, where themachinery for rolling silver and cutting the planchets was imper-fect, or perhaps as yet unknown. This coin brought a handsomeprice in 1859, no less than $57, and is well worth a much largersum of money. Indeed the collector, once possessed of it,… … WASHINGTON COINS. we find that it resembles the genuine half dollar on the obverse,while the reverse bears the mark of the engravers chisel struckacross the eagle. This would indicate that the die was disap-proved and destroyed by the engraver himself, and that the coinsstruck with it must have…
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