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"[The book contains] one medal engraving from a daguerreotype, by Joseph Saxton, of the front of the Mint, using a medal ruling machine, to copy a relief executed by Christian Gobrecht from the daguerreotype...This book is considered the first publication from a daguerreotype in the United States. A remarkable example of this little used process and of major importance in the history of photography and photomechanical printing in the United States. Joseph Saxton not only produced the oldest extant daguerreotype now in the United States, but also invented the modification to the ruling machine used for this publication."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 8. |
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22 carats alloy ALLOYED WITH SILVER America amount of coinage ascertained assay Austria average bars bear Bolivia British bullion carats cents Charles coinage Cologne mark Colombia colour counterfeit currency daler DENOMINATION Doubloon ducat dwts eagle Emperor engraving equal Ferdinand Ferdinand VII five florins francs Frederick French genuine German ghersh gold and silver GOLD COINS Guanaxuato guilders gulden Half crown Half dollar Hammered inscription issued King KOENIG kreutzers legend letter lire livre Louis medal melting metal Mexican Mexico millions mines mints moidore Napoleon Obverse ounces Peru piastres pistareen Plate XVI proportion Prussia Quarter dollar REIGN reis Republic REPUBLICA Reverse rixdollar roubles rupee Scudo Selim III shillings silver and copper SILVER COINS sovereign Spain Spanish dollar specific gravity specimens standard struck Sultan tests thaler piece THOUS troy grains U. S. Consul United various weight and fineness William worth