ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF THE
United States Mint
WITH 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 fully described:
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush,
John Jay Knox, James P. Kimball, Daniel M. Fox, and 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
Annual Products of Gold and Silver in the different
States, and Foreign Countries, with Monetary
Statistics of all Nations.
ILLUSTRATED with PHOTOTYPES, STEEL PLATE PORTRAITS and WOOD ENGRAVINGS,
with NUMEROUS PLATES of Photographic Reproductions of RARE AMERICAN
COINS, and Price List of their numismatic value.
New Revised Edition, Edited by the Publisher.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEORGE G. EVANS, Publisher.
1888.
Copyrighted by
George G. Evans.
1885.
Recopyrighted, 1888.
DUNLAP & CLARKE,
Printers and Book Binders.
819-21 Filbert Street,
Philadelphia.
- Adjusting room, 32
- American coinage, history of from 1792 to 1888
- gold coins, 142
- silver coins, 142
- Amount coined in fiscal year, 136, 141
- of coin in the United States, 142
- Ancient coining, 2
- Greek coins, 44
- Persian coins, 45
- Roman coins, 46
- Annealing furnaces, 29
- Architecture indebted to coins, 5
- Assay, process of, 23
- Assayers of Mint, list of, 118
- Assaying gold, 24
- silver, 25
- rooms, ...