A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century.
Subtitle: Showing their history, and legal basis, and their actual weight, fineness, and value chiefly from original and recent assays. With which are incorporated treatises on bullion and plate, counterfeit coins, specific gravity of precious metals, etc., with recent statistics of the production and coinage of gold and silver in the world, and sundry useful tables.
By: By Jacob R. Eckfeldt and William E. Du Bois. Illustrated by numerous engravings of coins, executed by the medalruling machine, and under the direction of Joseph Saxton.
Contributors: Du Bois, William E. 1810-1881, joint author.; Saxton, Joseph, 1799-1873, illus.
Publisher: Pub. at the Assay Office of the Mint
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Numismatics.; Coinage.; Money.