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A Manual of Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations, Struck Within the Past Century
Jacob R. Eckfeldt; William E. Du Bois · 1842 · Assay Office of the Mint, Philadelphia
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- —The book in which the 1804 dollar first appears in print — Plate II no. 3, "Dollar, 1797–1805", engraved by Saxton's medal-ruling machine from an electrotype of a Mint Cabinet coin. Also the source of "No dollars from 1806 to 1838, except 1000 in 1836" (p. 278).Early Dollars →
- Presents for KingsReadThe Mint's cabinet had no 1804 dollar in 1838 — because the coins were only then being made, as gifts for a Sultan and a King.
- The CarouselReadAccepted by count, exported by the crate: the banker's habit that consumed ninety-seven percent of the series.
- The Ledger and the DateReadThe Mint counted deliveries, never dates — and confusing the two columns manufactured the most famous coin in America.