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 ... 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, with list of coins that command premiums.

New rev. ed., edited by the publisher.

Philadelphia, G. G. Evans, 1891.

vi, 153, [1] p. front., illus., plates, ports. 23 cm.

English

June 01, 2002