I'm Writing Another Research Paper--Here's A cool bit of coin law I found from the early mint

airplanenut

I chose my topic to be on the art of patterns, and how the designs were representative of the United States' cultures and ideals. Anyway, I feel like I just did my first bit of "real" research for a research paper--instead of getting a fact from one source, I went from an old paper I wrote, to one website, to another, to Judd, to the Red Book, to David L. Ganz's "Coinage Laws of the United States"

Anyhoo, here's what I found:

In the Coinage Act of April 2, 1792, the following was written:

That, upon the said coins respectively, there shall be the following devices and legends, namely: Upon one side of each of the said coins there shall be an impression emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of the word Liberty, and the year of coinage; and upon the reverse of each of the gold and silver coins there shall be the figure or representation of an eagle, with this inscription, “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”...

Then, in the Coinage Act of January 18, 1837, the above statement was rewritten, concluding with: "but on the reverse of the dime and half dime, cent and half cent, the figure of the eagle shall be omitted."

So there you have it The Coinage Act of January 18, 1837, was the reason the eagle was removed from those little silver coins

By the way, the Ganz book is really neat (and it's got notes in the margin so you can find what you're looking for). I'm glad I own a copy, as I wouldn't have remembered to ask the ANA Library for it, and I need it!

Jeremy

ddbird

I wrote my research paper on the crash of 29'

Yours is a slightly cooler topic....

BTW, when are you released from the prison they call shool?

JrGMan2004

I think I've read both laws before I've done a little bit of looking around in the Congress Archives online

airplanenut

<< <i>I wrote my research paper on the crash of 29'

Yours is a slightly cooler topic....

BTW, when are you released from the prison they call shool? >>

I wrote about the financial problems around the crash last year. If we have no snow days, I graduate June 17th.

Jeremy

cosmicdebris

So what act or law replaced Liberty with dead presidents?

ms70

<< <i>So what act or law replaced Liberty with dead presidents? >>



Ya beat me to it! That's a law that needs repealing if it exists.

airplanenut

The book only covers laws until 1894

ddbird

<< <i>I graduate June 17th. >>



Sweet! Thats when we normally get out but for some reason we get out the 5th this year...Im not complainin though!

Longacre

There is a great book called "The US Mint and Coinage" by Don Taxay. It gives a great account of the early legislation and the formation of the mint, as well as attempts at using contract coinage. It also goes through early patterns that were made. It's a very interesting book and perhaps you can use the footnotes as additional sources of reseach (and the book itself as well).

airplanenut

<< <i>There is a great book called "The US Mint and Coinage" by Don Taxay. It gives a great account of the early legislation and the formation of the mint, as well as attempts at using contract coinage. It also goes through early patterns that were made. It's a very interesting book and perhaps you can use the footnotes as additional sources of reseach (and the book itself as well). >>

That's sitting beside me, as well

Unfortunately, I'm limited in sources as I've only got a week to churn out the paper--I don't have time to get to the ANS library, which is in NYC, so I've only got what little I own, and what I requested off-hand from the ANA.



<< <i>Sweet! Thats when we normally get out but for some reason we get out the 5th this year...Im not complainin though! >>

But you have to go back

Jeremy