Wooden Nickels; Or, The Decline and Fall of Silver Coins |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Supply and Demand | 33 |
Silver and the U S Treasury | 53 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
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5-cent piece alloy aluminum announced bullion parity Certainty of Production circulation coin shortage coinage alloy coinage material collectors columbium Congress Counterfeiting Potential countries cupronickel currency demand for silver dimes disappearance Ease and Certainty electrical resistivity export face value Federal Reserve Bank foreign free market Free World Gresham's Law half-dollar hoarding industry intrinsic value issue Kennedy halves legal tender market price melting million silver dollars mined minted monetary system money system nickel coins nickel silver Operation in Vending ounces of silver pennies peso Philadelphia Mint present price of silver problem Public Acceptability purchasing power pure nickel coins quarters ratio rejectors Robinson and Young silver bullion silver certificates silver coinage silver content silver dollars silver market silver prices silver stock silver-500 copper Spanish dollar speculators stainless steel store of value subsidiary coinage subsidiary silver tion Treasury silver Treasury stocks Treasury's U.S. silver vending machines Wall Street Journal York zinc