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Propositions respecting the coinage of gold, silver, and copper.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Continental Congress.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19328.
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23906.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coinage--United States.
- Coinage.
- United States.
- Finance--United States.
- Finance.
- Currency question--United States.
- Currency question.
- Money--United States.
- Money.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- [New York?] : [publisher not identified], [1785?]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Report of the Grand Committee of the Continental Congress, with the plan of Robert Morris, dated January 15, 1782, and Notes on the establishment of a money mint, and of a coinage for the United States, by Thomas Jefferson. In consequence of this report, the Continental Congress, on July 6, 1785, adopted the dollar as the unit of coinage, and the decimal ratio.
- Caption title.
- Recorded twice by Evans, once with supplied imprint [New York, 1785], and again with imprint [Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1791]. The first entry seems likelier.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 19328).
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 23906).
- Cited in:
- Evans 19328
- Evans 23906
- Contains:
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Notes on the establishment of a money mint, and of a coinage for the United States.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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