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  • Thumbnail for Coinage Act of 1792
    The Coinage Act of 1792 (also known as the Mint Act; officially: An act establishing a mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States), passed by...
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  • The "Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States" was a report submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives...
    19 KB (1,794 words) - 22:33, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Coinage Act of 1965
    The Coinage Act of 1965, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 89–81, 79 Stat. 254, enacted July 23, 1965, eliminated silver from the circulating...
    44 KB (6,092 words) - 16:53, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dime (United States coin)
    labeled formally as "one dime". The denomination was first authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792. The dime is the smallest in diameter and is the thinnest...
    28 KB (3,405 words) - 01:54, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States dollar
    official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish silver...
    109 KB (10,192 words) - 13:54, 25 August 2024
  • The Coinage Act of 1857 (Act of Feb. 21, 1857, Chap. 56, 34th Cong., Sess. III, 11 Stat. 163) was an act of the United States Congress which ended the...
    5 KB (678 words) - 16:33, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Two-cent piece (United States)
    wishing to keep the metal nickel in the coinage, led by Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864, authorizing bronze...
    32 KB (4,035 words) - 14:34, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish dollar
    24.06 grams), and it remained legal tender in the United States until the Coinage Act of 1857. Many other currencies around the world, such as the Japanese...
    30 KB (3,023 words) - 10:02, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trade dollar (United States coin)
    eventually put before Congress, where it was approved, and signed into law as the Coinage Act of 1873. The act made trade dollars legal tender up to five dollars...
    28 KB (3,364 words) - 18:09, 28 August 2024
  • Roman Republican currency is the coinage struck by the various magistrates of the Roman Republic, to be used as legal tender. In modern times, the abbreviation...
    39 KB (4,868 words) - 18:44, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coinage Act of 1873
    The Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of...
    50 KB (7,106 words) - 13:31, 26 April 2024
  • The Coinage Act of 1834 was passed by the United States Congress on June 28, 1834. It raised the silver-to-gold weight ratio from its 1792 level of 15:1...
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  • Thumbnail for Half dime
    the first business strike coin minted by the United States Mint under the Coinage Act of 1792, with production beginning on or about July 1792. However...
    13 KB (1,240 words) - 20:30, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Precious metal
    each have an ISO 4217 currency code. The best known precious metals are the coinage metals, which are gold and silver. Although both have industrial uses...
    16 KB (1,485 words) - 15:52, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Half eagle
    that of the eagle coin. Production of the half eagle was authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792, and it was the first gold coin minted by the United States...
    10 KB (1,078 words) - 05:47, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seated Liberty dollar
    last silver coin of that denomination to be struck before passage of the Coinage Act of 1873, which temporarily ended production of the silver dollar...
    31 KB (4,053 words) - 07:54, 1 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nicias (Indo-Greek king)
    Nicias (Greek: Νικίας, Nikías; r. 90 – 85 BC) was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the Paropamisade. Most of his relatively few coins have been found in...
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  • Thumbnail for Quarter eagle
    fifty cents, or two dollars and fifty cents. It was given its name in the Coinage Act of 1792, as a derivation from the US ten-dollar eagle coin. The quarter...
    9 KB (1,066 words) - 17:13, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Group 11 element
    behaves like the heavier homologue to gold. Group 11 is also known as the coinage metals, due to their usage in minting coins—while the rise in metal prices...
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  • Thumbnail for Coinage Act of 1849
    The Coinage Act of 1849 was an Act of the United States Congress passed during the California Gold Rush authorizing the Mint to produce two new gold coins...
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