A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century: showing their history, and legal basis
- Author(s): Jacob R Eckfeldt
- Category: Coins & Currency
- Publisher: Carey & Hart
- Publish year: 1851
- ISBN: 9678000002716
- Number of Pages: 322
A new book of coins seems to be required by the commercial world about once in twenty years. In this undertaking, singular facilities have been afforded us. We have operated on nearly all the kinds of coin current in the world for a hundred years past, and in the most important instances, upon considerable masses of them, and by frequent repetitions ; so that a fair average has been attained. Out of 760 assays of coin stated in the second chapter, six-sevenths are original; the remainder, consisting chiefly of the older European and Oriental moneys, have been taken from Bonneville and Kelly, with a few from Becher
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A MANUAL OF GOLD AND SILVER COINS OF ALL NATIONS, STRUCK WITHIN THE PAST CENTURY
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
APPENDIX
A SUMMARY STATEMENT OF THE AVERAGE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF LATE YEARS, IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES
PROPORTION OF COINAGE IN LARGE AND SMALL PIECES.
PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER
TABLE A. COMPARISON OF VARIOUS MODES OF EXPRESSING THE FINENESS OF GOLD AND SILVER
TABLE B. VALUE IN U.S. MONEY, OF SILVER AND GOLD, OF STANDARD FINENESS
TABLE C. VALUE IN U.S. MONEY, OF ONE OUNCE TROY, OF SILVER OR GOLD, AT DIFFERENT DEGREES OF FINENESS
TABLE D. EQUIVALENT OF U. S. CENTS, IN BRITISH AND FRENCH MONEYS
SUPPLEMENT TO THE MANUAL
ADDENDA AND CORRECTIONS