U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 216, Letters Received from Branch Mints and Assay Offices, 1834-1873)
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Mint Director Patterson write to Treasury Secretary Walter Forward regarding copper coinage at New Orleans. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 104 Entry 216, Volume 6.
From the U.S. National Archives, record group 104 (U.S. Mint), entry 216 (branch Mint correspondence), volume 6, covering January 18, 1842 to January 21, 1845.
The Secretary of the Treasury (Walter Forward) report for the year 1842, extracted from Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (vol. 4). The report for 1842 begins on p. 485.
U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 1, General Correspondence)
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U.S. Mint general correspondence for March-December 1842.
From the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), record group 104 (U.S. Mint), entry 1 (general correspondence), box 22. Image processing courtesy of Roger Burdette, based on scanning directed by Bob Julian operating under a grant from the Central States Numismatic Society. A partial index is at the end of the volume.
U.S. National Archives (Record Group 104, Entry 1, General Correspondence)
Beschreibung:
U.S. Mint general correspondence for January-February 1842.
From the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), record group 104 (U.S. Mint), entry 1 (general correspondence), box 22. Image processing courtesy of Roger Burdette, based on scanning directed by Bob Julian operating under a grant from the Central States Numismatic Society. A partial index is at the end of the document.
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), record group 104 (U.S. Mint), entry 1 (General Correspondence, 1792-1857), boxes 22 to 24, scanner images 1201 to 1392. Scanned under the direction of Robert W. Julian at the NARA Philadelphia facility, operating via a grant from the Central States Numismatic Society. Note, for correspondence, endorsements were generally not copied. Boxes 22 to 24 cover the period 1842 to 1845.
"A treatise on coins," write the authors, "which does not present a picture of them, is but half fitted for its purposes." Yet a decade before the numismatic boom of the 1850s, it was obvious that coin books needed to be picture books. The first chapters of this work concentrate on technical specifications of world gold and silver coinage, a subject near and dear to Eckfeldt and DuBois as assayers of the U. S. Mint. But the real fun starts in chapter six, when Joseph Saxton's steam-powered medal ruling machine is put to work on electrotypes produced from Mint cabinet specimens, most notably an 1804 dollar. The results were remarkable for the time, especially as Saxton's contraption automated the entire process. Sixteen plates are included in all, two with American content. Another prize is the frontispiece, an image of the second United States mint, produced using the daguerreotype, electrotype, and Saxton's medal ruler - a trio of the latest technology. That one of the first American daguerreotypes was executed by Saxton himself, peering out of the same building, in 1839, only heightens the sense of promise of illustrative science that Eckfeldt and DuBois captured for posterity. Voted #79 of the top one hundred items of numismatic literature by the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.
