A Short History Of United States Coinage Together With Some Statistical Tables Showing The Failure Of The Attempt To Establish A Double Standard

Excerpt from A Short History of United States Coinage: Together With Some Statistical Tables Showing the Failure of the Attempt to Establish a Double Standard and Illustrating the Silver Question The act of 1873 was not the beginning of the demonetizing of silver, Twenty years before 1873 silver was demonetized by the act of 1853. Forty-seven years before 1853 Thomas Jefferson in 1806 ordered the Director of the Mint to coin no more silver dollars. From 1806 to 1873 we had no silver dollars in our coinage and we had no need of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Originally published in 1899. PREFACE: The history of gold and silver coinage in the United States may properly be divided into six periods. Chapters Include; I.Colonial Coinage, II.From Confederation to Constitution, III. Hamilton's Report to Congress Concerning a Mint, IV. Act of 1792, V. Act of 1834, VI. Act of 1837, VII. Act of 1853, VIII. Act of 1873, IX. History of the Act of 1873, X. Act of January 14, 1875, XI. Act of 1878, XII. Act of 1890, XIII. Act of November 1, 1893, XIV. The double standard not Successful, XV. The United States Friendly to Silver, XVI. The failure to coin silver not the cause of the Picnin, XVII. The Trade Dollar, XVIII. Devices and Inscriptions on our Coins, XIX. Table of Coins, XX. Minor Coins, XXI. The silver dollar and subsidiary coinage, and, XXII. The Lesson of the Century....... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic

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