The Declaration of Independence - A Brief
History
By: Stanley L.
Klos
1885 Trade Dollar
The name Trade dollar came with the Feb. 12, 1873, act authorizing the coins.
"an expensive mistake -- its motivation mere greed, its design a triumph of dullness, its domestic circulation and legal tender status a disastrous provision of law leading only to ghastly abuses." -- Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins
Composition: 900 Silver, .100 Copper
Diameter: 38.1 mm
Weight: 27.22 grams
Edge: Reeded
Head: Seated Liberty
Reverse: Eagle
Designer: William Barber
Presidential $1 Coin Controversy - --
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Forgotten Founders vs. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Samuel
Huntington
First President of the
United States of America
in Congress Assembled
March 1, 1781 to July 6, 1781
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