The early coins of America and the laws governing their issue : comprising also descriptions of the Washington pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the first patterns of the United States Mint (1875)
Crosby, Sylvester S. (Sylvester Sage), d. 1914 · Boston : The author · leaf 317
eport uj^on this subject was as follows : — There are two contracts made by the board of treasury with JamesJaiwis, the one for coining three hundred tons of copper of the federalstandard, to be loaned to the United States, together with an additional quan-tity of fortj-five tons, which he was to… … HEIKilMK IAIKNI THE FUGIOS. 299 tons, luis lately Ijuun i-opuited to CoiigTcss. It does not appear to yourcommittee that the board wei-e authorized to contract for the privileg-e ofcoining- forty-five tons^ as a premium, exclusive of the three hundred men-tioned in the act of Congress. The other…
Coins, American · Tokens
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