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Message from the President, communicating the report of the Director of the Mint (1805)

United States. Bureau of the Mint / Director of the Mint · 1805 · U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington

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  • —Boudinot's report on CY1804 operations: silver coinage "greatly exceeded that of the year 1803", attributed to "the late scarcity of Spanish dollars, occasioned by the great exportation of them, for mercantile purposes".Early Dollars →

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  • CHAPTER TWOThe CarouselReadAccepted by count, exported by the crate: the banker's habit that consumed ninety-seven percent of the series.
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