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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 332

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andif the piece described by Curwen was the Five, as we believe, we havedescriptions of seven out of the eight dies mentioned. Jcftersons modification of Moriiss system ultimately prevailed, whichprobably accounts ibr the scarcity of the patterns of Morriss proposed coins :owing to the… … OBVERSE, NO. 1. Device, — An eye on a plain field, within a glory of thirteen points, thepoints intersecting a circle of thirteen stars.Legend, — nova constellatioBorder, — Serrated. PATTERNS AND TOKENS. 313 OBVERSE NO. 2. Device, — An eye on a plain field, within a glory of thirteen points,…

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