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.
By: 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 Jacob R. Eckfeldt, and William E. Du Bois. With engravings of coins, by Saxton's medal-ruling machine. To which is added, a supplement to 1850, and corrections to June, 1851.
Contributors: Du Bois, William E. 1810-1881, joint author.; Saxton, Joseph, 1799-1873, illus.
Publisher: A. Hart
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Numismatics.; Coinage.; Money.
Notes: Added t.-p., engr., with vignette, dated 1842.
"The Mormon coins," one leaf inserted between p. 240 and [241]