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
Contributors: Du Bois, William E. 1810-1881; Saxton, Joseph, 1799-1873
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 10512-10515
Publisher: Assay Office of the Mint
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Numismatics; Coinage; Money
Notes: "Illustrated by numerous engravings of coins, executed by the medalruling machine, and under the direction of Joseph Saxton."--T.p

Sabin 21787

Microfiche. Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1992. 4 microfiches : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time ; 10512-10515)