National Executive Silver Committee
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 166
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Excerpt from Silver in the Fifty-First Congress: Preceded by a Summary of the Coinage Laws of the United States, Prior to 1878, and a History of the Act of 1873 and the Act of 1878 The act also provided for half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes and half dimes, each to contain, respectively, one-half, one-fourth, one tenth and one-twentieth of the pure silver contained in the dollar. The coinage of cents and half cents of copper were also provided for. 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.