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 301
o a deficit of 1J per cent. There are no dates on the coinshowever, to enable us to mark the difference, but the pieces assayed in 1843 werebetter than those assayed in 1849. The last and newest lot gave $4.94 to the fivedollar piece. As Bechtlers pieces are alloyed with silver, they will produce… … l Nn..-.-i,thM i.nii rinii.ti1 UNITED STATES. 223 CALIFORNIA COINS. Soon after the discovery of gold in California, the great difficulty, risk, and frequentlosses, consequent upon its retention or transportation, and the schemes devised, andoften successful, for cheating the miner, relative to the…
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