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Mint Report 1803
United States. Bureau of the Mint / Director of the Mint · 1803 · Washington: congressional printers (pre-GPO); NNP extract from American State Papers, Finance
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- p.3Jefferson's transmittals of January 11, 1803 (CY1802) and January 13, 1804 (CY1803), with Boudinot's reports and the Treasurer's coinage abstracts, including the comparative statement 1798–1802. Source of the 1798–1803 delivery figures and of the quarterly abstracts that check them.Early Dollars →
- The CarouselReadAccepted by count, exported by the crate: the banker's habit that consumed ninety-seven percent of the series.
- The First SilverReadA shop with horses, a statute about to expire, and 1,758 coins on an October afternoon — where every early dollar comes from.
- The Ledger and the DateReadThe Mint counted deliveries, never dates — and confusing the two columns manufactured the most famous coin in America.
- Twelve MarriagesReadA teaching set, ranked by lesson rather than price: attribute these twelve and you can attribute the series.
- CHAPTER TWOThe Coin That Did the Dollar's Work — The Early Half Dollars — An OunceDesk Guide (The American Series)
- CHAPTER FIVEThe Ledger, Twice — The Early Half Dollars — An OunceDesk Guide (The American Series)
- CHAPTER ONEThe Second Delivery — The Early Half Dollars — An OunceDesk Guide (The American Series)
- CHAPTER ONETwo Bits — The Early Quarters — An OunceDesk Guide (The American Series)