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... War 28 Chapter 3: Weights and Measures 52 Chapter 4: Constitutional Monetary Clauses 57 Chapter 5: Preliminary Reports 93 Chapter 6: Primary Coinage Acts 102 Section A: 1792, April 2 Act 102 Section B: 1834, June 28 Act (Chapter 95) 121 Section C: 1837, January 18 Act 143 Section D: 1849, March 3 Act 154 Section E: 1853, February 21 Act 158 Section F: 1873, ...

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...e II, Appendix contains texts of America's monetary laws. Appendix Topic A. Organic Documents B. Mint Statistics through 1902 C. Preliminary Coinage Reports D. Primary Coinage Acts E. Secondary Coinage Acts F. Foreign Coinage Acts G. Commemorative Coinage Acts from 1891-1954 H. Modern Commemorative Coinage Acts I. Acts regarding Mints and Assay O...

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...Amendments 28 (Declaration of Independence) 37 (Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union) 42 Appendix B: Mint Statistics 1793-1902 50 Silver Coinage Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 51 Silver Coinage Mint Mintage Statistics 1793-1902 (odd denominations) 54 Gold Coinage Statistics 1793-1902 (in dollars) 57 Appendix C: Reports 60 Superintendent Robert Morris’ 1782 ...

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...nce to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. http://www.cjbooks.net 2 Dedicated to my eldest daughter Lin... ...ost toppled a chair and table trying to get to the stupid thing. I insert coins into the slot yet before I can make my choice, my man is standing be... ..., I 191 feel I’m still part of reality and not another dimension. Dinner mints, yummy and if Michael doesn’t want his, I’ll have it. Mind you, if I...

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...ms upon the Dartmouth basketball team at the recent gnnie nt Williamstown, coining as a culmination of con- stant friction in mutunl relations, makes ... ...ton rf.. Waters c Allen li;. Tower rg. J I All Others I lo | o ! Wiiluuns' Coints ±\ . I '. i J 4 I i o 467 BASKETS ilV Ol'l'O.SENT Diirlic rf. Templc... ...in & Bank Sis. , Xo. Adams Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass. \Viih tht. coinpJclion of the new buildings, v.hicli wtre dedicated Septcinlier 25111,... ...n $1.50 up. .-. EMPIRE THEATRE .-. Tuesday, Ularcli 5 liichard Carle's Own Coinedian •Itdiii jj. Kearney in ''I'lll'; MAVOK OK "TOKIO" Saturday, Mat. ... ...Y., on Alon- ilay, Alarcli 2.0. The annual elec- tion (jf olticern for the coining year wa.s hold li(!f(jro the Ijanquet and resulted as follows: pres... ... weight and fineness of the gold and silver specie coined by the va- rious mints of the country during the past year. Tbe work of the commission, whic...

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...main instead of Hebrew, that I might have paid the fellow out with his own coin. But there I was; I could not stand there silent, and the best I could... ... no hurry about that – and I need not go into it. Only remember it must be coined money that you sell it for.” “How am I to know that this is all true... ... man sold shells and clubs from the wild islands, old heathen deities, old coined money, pictures from China and Japan, and all manner of things that ... ...d none so brave as my Keawe! But, then, there is France; they have a small coin there which they call a centime, and these go five to the cent or ther... ... the change – the precious centimes they kept ever at their side; for this coin is little used, and they had made provision at a Government office. Wh... ...fter than eagles. “And to think how they have fooled me with their talk of mints,” says he, “and that money was made there, when it is clear that all ...

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...ile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehen- sion of a parricide, and containing a description o... ...out his purse, prudent suspicions still molest the Captain. He rings every coin to find a counter- feit. Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah ... .... Look ye! d’ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?”—holding up a broad bright coin to the sun— “it is a sixteen dollar piece, men. D’ye see it? Mr. Starb... ... 256 Moby Dick pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin’s, and a... ... mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed w... ...n added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic. It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod w...

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...pile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of ... ...spicions still molest the Captain. 54 Chapter 9 The Sermon He rings every coin to find a counterfeit. Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah is ... ...Look ye! d’ye see this Spanish ounce of gold?” — holding up a broad bright coin to the sun — “it is a sixteen dollar piece, men, — a doubloon. D’ye se... ...f temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain armor like Saladin’s, and a... ... mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed wi... ...added preciousness and enhancing glo ries, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic. It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod w...

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... only therefore Desire to breed by me. Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun And w... ...d they of ten give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not give us the lie. Clown: Y...

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...de, therefore, at Laxton during his earliest visit; and this hap- pened to coincide with that particular visit of my own dur- ing which I was initiati... ...y, it did not follow that X must have had a hand in it. And yet, had these coin- cidences then been observed, they would certainly—now that strong sus... ...own be- tween Liverpool and Manchester), were deluged with gold and silver coins, moidores, and dollars, from the Spanish 76 Memorials, and Other Pap... ...e, that a considerable part of poor Mrs. Rusborough’s treasure lay in such coins, gold and silver, from the Spanish colonial mints. Lady Carbery at th... ...h’s treasure lay in such coins, gold and silver, from the Spanish colonial mints. Lady Carbery at this period made an effort to teach me Hebrew, by wa... ...e states, as circumstances drawn from my descrip- tion, but, in fact, pure coinages of his own, certain romantic impossibilities, which, doubtless, co...

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...? An’ he was a moild man! But I’m digreshin’. ’Tis a shame both to the rig’mints and the Arrmy sendin’ down little orf’cer bhoys wid a draf av strong ... ...e! Our Scotchies an’ lashins av Gurkeys was poundin’ into some Paythan rig’mints, I think ’twas. Scotchies an’ Gurkeys are twins bekaze they’re so onl... ...rth’ris, ma son! Ah’ve got one rupee eight annas of ma own.’ He showed two coins, and replaced Ortheris on the drawbridge rail. ‘Very good,’ I said;’ ...

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...ln: V ol Six tion. Convertibility, prompt and certain convertibility, into coin is generally acknowledged to be the best and surest safeguard against ... ...extremely doubtful whether a circulation of United States notes payable in coin and sufficiently large for the wants of the people can be permanently,... ...cers, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against the evils of a vicious currency a... ...gn intercourse, $1,339,710.35; for miscellaneous ex- penses, including the mints, loans, post-office deficiencies, collection of revenue, and other li... ... from the fact that the periods of time, though apparently were not really coincident at the beginning point, the Treasury report including a consider... ...t be well for us all. The birthday of Washington and the Christian Sabbath coin- ciding this year, and suggesting together the highest interests of th...

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...e idea: What I don’t know about raising cattle, ain’t worth knowing. There’s mints of money in it, in Californy. Well, I know, and you know, that all ... ... Had he yielded at last? I feared it. What had he gone below for?—His bag of coin? Possibly. I drew near the door, full of bodings. It was a crack, an... ...er and higher. At last ten thousand dollars lay in view. Wiley cast a bag of coin on the table, and said with mocking gentleness— “Five thousand dolla... ...may be so improved in form that even those rare floods which result from the coincident rising of many tributaries will find vent without destroying l...

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...Dollars and nonCents examines American monetary history, showing how paper currencies were deceptively made a legal tender (alongside gold and silver coin) in 1862 and cleverly upheld by the courts who were not exactly forthright with their rulings (necessitating a reading between the lines to understand them). Dollars and nonCents recommends a grain of gold as a market u...

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...Proponents of a legal tender paper currency occasionally point to the Constitution’s wording of the power “To coin Money” and claim that the word “Money” must include paper currency, since ‘money’ appears to be a word of greater meaning than that used in the same clause as it relates to “foreign Coin.” This is but a slight variation...

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...Table of Contents Chapter 1. American Lawful Tender Money 1 Section 1. April 2, 1792 Coinage Act 1 Section 2. Standard Unit of Value 9 Section 3. Legal Tender Value — Weight & Purity 10 Section 4. Regulating the Value of Foreign Coinage 14 Section 5. Money - vs. - Coin 17 Section 6. June 28, 1834 Co...

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... have been made use of for this purpose in rude bars, without any stamp or coinage. Thus we are told by Pliny (Plin. Hist Nat. lib. 33, cap. 3), upon ... ...cient historian, that, till the time of Servius Tullius, the Romans had no coined money, but made use of unstamped bars of copper, to purchase whateve... ...t can be drawn from it is extremely uncertain. Before the insti- tution of coined money, however, unless they went through this tedious and difficult ... ...se countries commonly made use of to pur- chase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those pub- lic offices called mints; institutions exac... ...ds. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those pub- lic offices called mints; institutions exactly of the same nature with those of the aulnagers ... ... weighing those metals with exactness, gave occasion to the institution of coins, of which the stamp, covering entirely both sides of the piece, and s... ...e current money of different countries by the standard of their respective mints. In some it is more, in others it is less worn, clipt, and oth- erwis... ...omputed in the usual manner, according to the standard of their respective mints, was five-and twenty per cent. against England. But the value of the ... ... countries, therefore, were equally near the standards of their respective mints, a sum of English money could not well purchase a sum of French money...

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...utual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation, as true as it is trite, that ... ...schemes of oppression. If the im- pulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives can be reli... ...lar system of administration inherent in the nature of popular government, coinciding with the real scarcity of money incident to a languid and mutila... ...eign commerce, on the basis of her own navigation, is her true policy, and coincides with the opinions and dispositions of her citizens. The more Sout... ...s- sessing quotas of troops and money; constructing fortresses; regulating coin; admitting new members; and subjecting dis- obedient members to the ba... ...he particular States could have no other effect than to multiply expensive mints and diversify the forms and weights of the circulating pieces. The la... ...o the central mint for recoinage, the end can be as well attained by local mints established under the general authority. The extension of the prohibi...

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...f the world? The deaths and accessions of Kings, the changing of names and coins and symbols and persons, a little force our minds in the marking off ... ...th of living. The Mint has since been increasing its annual output of gold coins to two or three times the former amount, and we have, as it were, deb... ...two or three times the former amount, and we have, as it were, debased the coinage with extraordinary quantities of gold. But we who know and own did ... ... have attempted in this essay. In order to do so it has been convenient to coin two ex- pressions, and to employ them with a certain defined inten- ti... ...scoundrel Griswold; one thinks of State Universities that are no more than mints for bogus degrees; one thinks of “Science” Christianity and Zion City... ...level at which much of China remains to-day—able to get along without even coinage. It was a rudimentary world from the point of view of the modern fi...

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...he was out his mother died. She only sur- vived her husband eleven days, a coincidence which was recorded on their tombstone. Such, in substance, was ... ...chose, and if he paid his father back it would certainly not be in his own coin. So when Stewart said, “At Cambridge, can I read for the Moral Science... ... way? “Do you remember us talking of Stephen—Stephen Wonham, who by an odd coincidence—” “Yes. Who wrote last year to that miserable failure Varden. I... ... letters they were writing home. XXVIII THE SOUL has her own currency. She mints her spiri- tual coinage and stamps it with the image of some beloved ... ...ting home. XXVIII THE SOUL has her own currency. She mints her spiri- tual coinage and stamps it with the image of some beloved face. With it she pays... ... richer in the end. In her agony she learns to reckon clearly. Fair as the coin may have been, it was not accurate; and though she knew it not, there ...

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... is rea- sonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spu- rious coin of my own make, as good money! An obliging stranger, under pretence of... ...t at all likely he could have known me without accidental help. Still, the coincidence of our be- ing together on the coach, was sufficiently strange ... ...he coach, was sufficiently strange to fill me with a dread that some other coincidence might at any mo- ment connect me, in his hearing, with my name.... ...bye!” They shook hands again, and as we walked away Wemmick said to me, “A Coiner, a very good workman. The Recorder’ s report is made to-day , and he... ...ty, if you will believe me, those very words were on my lips, by a strange coincidence.” “Then, Herbert,” I would respond, “let us look into out affai... ...t leave it to be supposed that we were ever a great house, or that we made mints of money. We were not in a grand way of business, but we had a good n...