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Annual Report of the Director of the Mint to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1889
United States. Bureau of the Mint / Director of the Mint · 1889 · U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington
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- —The same coinage table at p. 173, with the silver columns legible. Corroborating printing for every delivery figure quoted from S3.Early Dollars →
- The Ledger and the DateReadThe Mint counted deliveries, never dates — and confusing the two columns manufactured the most famous coin in America.