Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 478
the provision that silver pieces should be used onlyas divisional coins, and with a legal-tender power limited to forty shillings. Properly speaking, there was no coinage in the United States during thecolonial period. Maryland had a mint at one time, and one or two of theother States, but they… … OLD UNITED STATES MINT, PHILADELPHIA. The coins in use before the Eevolution were, to some extent, those of Eng-land, but more largely those of Spain, circulated in South America andtraveling up to the United States. The unit of account was the Spanishmilled dollar or piece-of-eight, though, up to…
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