A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century : showing their history, and legal basis, and their actual weight, fineness, and value, chiefly from original and recent assays : with which are incorporated treatises on bullion and plate, counterfeit coins, specific gravity of precious metals, etc. : with recent statistics of the production and coinage of gold and silver in the world, and sundry useful tables /

A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century : showing their history, and legal basis, and their actual weight, fineness, and value, chiefly from original and recent assays : with which are incorporated treatises on bullion and plate, counterfeit coins, specific gravity of precious metals, etc. : with recent statistics of the production and coinage of gold and silver in the world, and sundry useful tables /

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Author / Creator:Eckfeldt, Jacob R. (Jacob Reese), 1803-1872.
Imprint:Philadelphia (Pa.) : Published at the Assay Office of the Mint, 1842.
Description:220 p., xvi leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature ; 32914.12.
Making of the modern economy
Subject:
Numismatics.
Coinage.
Money.
Coinage.
Money.
Numismatics.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5955210
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Other authors / contributors:Du Bois, William E. (William Ewing), 1810-1881.
Saxton, Joseph, 1799-1873.
Notes:Includes index.
"Illustrated by numerous engravings of coins executed by the medal-ruling machine, and under the direction, of Joseph Saxton of the United States mint."
Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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