Illustrated history of the United States mint : with short historical sketches and illustrations of the branch mints and assay offices, and a complete description of American coinage from the earliest period to the present time : the process of melting, refining, assaying, and coining gold and silver being fully described : with biographical sketches of the mint officers from its foundation to the present time : to which are added a glossary of mint terms and the latest official tables of the operations of the different Mints and Assay Offices, showing the annual products of the gold and silver in the United States and foreign countries, with monetary statistics of the world (1893)
Philadelphia : G.G. Evans · leaf 34
tion. On entering the rotunda, the office of the Cashier is to the right. Farther in, in the hall, to the rear, on the right, is the room where the large silver bars are weighed, and still further back a large vault, on which has been built a room in which nickels and cents are counted. The Deposit… … SCALES. ■smallest, is the thousandth part of an ounce. The scales are wonderfully delicate, and are examined and adjusted every morning. On the right in this room is one of the fifteen
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