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  • 1823

    Ding, Ding Ding!!!!!
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  • LALASD4LALASD4 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭
    1802
    Coin Collector, Chicken Owner, Licensed Tax Preparer & Insurance Broker/Agent.
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  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My guess is 1818. image
  • 1794
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  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1807
  • 1806
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  • In 1814 they took a little trip...
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  • They rcvd 1/4 pymt on 12-31-1794, so if not 1794....

    1795.
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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They rcvd 1/4 pymt on 12-31-1794, so if not 1794....

    1795. >>



    The paper I'm looking at is a quarterly payment, also with the annual next to it.

    The clerk is now making 40% more than the original Act called for. I wonder who he had the goods over?image

    Joe
    The Philadelphia Mint: making coins since 1792. We make money by making money. Now in our 225th year thanks to no competition. image


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    << <i>They rcvd 1/4 pymt on 12-31-1794, so if not 1794....

    1795. >>



    The paper I'm looking at is a quarterly payment, also with the annual next to it.

    The clerk is now making 40% more than the original Act called for. I wonder who he had the goods over?image

    Joe >>




    So did I get it right?
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  • LALASD4LALASD4 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭
    1778
    Coin Collector, Chicken Owner, Licensed Tax Preparer & Insurance Broker/Agent.
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  • sadysta1sadysta1 Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭
    1804


  • << <i>In 1814 they took a little trip... >>



    down the Mississippi?
  • April 14, 1792
  • 08HALA2008HALA20 Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭
    1942

    Rookie Joe


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  • PhillyJoePhillyJoe Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>They rcvd 1/4 pymt on 12-31-1794, so if not 1794....

    1795. >>



    The paper I'm looking at is a quarterly payment, also with the annual next to it.

    The clerk is now making 40% more than the original Act called for. I wonder who he had the goods over?image

    Joe >>




    So did I get it right? >>



    Clerk was still making $500/yr in 1795.

    Joe
    The Philadelphia Mint: making coins since 1792. We make money by making money. Now in our 225th year thanks to no competition. image
  • LALASD4LALASD4 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭
    1797
    Coin Collector, Chicken Owner, Licensed Tax Preparer & Insurance Broker/Agent.
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'll guess 1808!

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  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    << In 1814 they took a little trip... >>



    down the Mississippi?


    ...to the Gulf of Mexico....
  • 1801
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  • FatManFatMan Posts: 8,977
    1838
  • ormandhormandh Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭
  • CherwoodCherwood Posts: 1,073
    1806
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  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    1864
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 7,308 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I'll go for 1809, and the start of the Classic Head Half Cents

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  • Director of the Mint.......$2,000
    Treasurer......................$1,200
    Chief Coiner..................$1,500
    Assayer.........................$1,500
    Melter & Refiner.............$1,500
    Engraver.......................$1,200
    Clerk................................$700


    This is what I found

    Coinage Act (1792)

    From: United States Statutes at Large, 2nd Cong., Sess. I., p. 246-251
    April 2, 1792

    Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed and paid as compensations for their respective services--To the said director, a yearly salary of two thousand dollars, to the said assayer, a yearly salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, to the said chief coiner, a yearly salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, to the said engraver, a yearly salary of one thousand two hundred dollars, to the said treasurer, a yearly salary of one thousand two hundred dollars, to each clerk who may be employed, a yearly salary not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to the several subordinate workmen and servants, such wages and allowances as are customary and reasonable, according to their respective stations and occupations.
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