The American numismatical manual of the currency or money of the aborigines, and colonial, state, and United States coins. With historical and descriptive notices of each coin or series (1859)
Dickeson, Montroville Wilson · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 145
t — involved in debt; with the discontent that preceded the disbanding of thearmy, when it became necessary for Washington to preface his answer to its clamorsby — after first wiping his spectacles—uttering the talismanic words : My eyes havegrown dim in the service of my country, but I never… … K H..M>i,ihal.l,ii; COLONIAL COINS. 101 have much to be thankful for; and also, that instead of a currency — symbolical ofmonarchal power on one side, and the liberty and justice on the other, which is weighedin such scales, we have our free native eagle and other insignia of true liberty…
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