Mark Borckardt Numismatic Postcards (Varied Formats) // Hyku

1. Post-card with embossed US coins and German text

Beschreibung:: Print and embossings of US coins and their conversion values to other international currencies.

2. Wooden post card

Beschreibung:: Addressed to Miss Edna Macdonal, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Dickinson Ho. Stamp of Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. Handwritten 35 in top-left corner.

3. Reverse side and Wooden post card

Beschreibung:: Transcription of text: All a-board for the World's Fair. Arrived safe. Exposition is more than oak-a, it is ash-tonishing, you cedar sights of your life. The Pike is fir-straight, more than a pear of peaches and the spielers don't bark like a tree. Board and (s)lumber at poplar prices, no need to pine for what you plank down. Birch-ance the last great show for many years. More fun than the beech. I wood spruce up and come. You walnut regret it. Butternut delay. Sincerely, Hickcry Hemlock. St. Louis. Oct 20, 1904. Per Papa. Lousiana Souvenir Gold Dollar. Exposition's Commemorative Legal Tender. Copyrighted by Farran Zerbe, 1904.

4. United States Min, Denver, Colo. and Reverse side

Beschreibung:: Blank

5. United States Min, Denver, Colo.

Beschreibung:: Photograph of United States Min, Denver, Colo.

6. U.S. Treasury and Reverse side

Beschreibung:: Transcription of manufacturer's text: The U.S. Treasury is located upon one of the Government Reservations in the City of the Washington, D.C., 27 feet above the level of the Potomac river. The corner-stone of the original building (which was of brick, with stone foundations) was laid in 179[?] and the building completed in 1799. It was partially destroyed by fire in 1801, but immediately repaired. It was totally destroyed by fire, August, 1814, at the invasion of the British. Rebuilding was commenced in 1817, and completed in 1823. It was again destroyed by fire, March 29, 1833. Designs for a new building (which constitutes the eastern front of the present structure) were prepared by Mr. Robert Mills, of South Carolina, Architect. Work was commenced in 1835, and completed in 1839. The material used was sandstone from Virginia. The extension of the building was commenced in October, 1855, Mr. Thomas U. Walters, Architect. Granite, from Dix Island, off the coast of Maine, was the material adopted. The south wing was completed in 1860, the west wing in 1864, and the north wing in 1869. The entire length of the building proper is 520 feet 1 inch; to the end of the steps, 560 feet; and the greatest depth 272 feet 9 inches. The entire area covered by the building is 142,320 superficial feet. In the north wing is an elegant room, 70x32 feet, and 32 feet high, finished entirely in marble; probably the finest room in America. It is used as the cashroom of the Treasurer of the United States. The cost of the entire building is about $6,650,000. Photographed and Published by BELL & BRO, No. 319 (old No. 480) Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. Entered according to an act of Congress. A.D. 1870 by F.H. BELL in the District Court of the District of Columbia. Handwritten 10 in top-left corner.

7. U.S. Treasury

Beschreibung:: Photograph of U.S. Treasury

8. La Monnaie, Paris and Reverse side

Beschreibung:: Transcription of written note: La Monnaie, Paris. Handwritten 5 in top-left corner.

9. La Monnaie, Paris

Beschreibung:: Photograph of La Monnaie in Paris

10. Reverse side and Keystone View Company

Beschreibung:: Transcription of manufacturer's text: Government coining presses, Philadelphia, PA. Lat. 40� N.; Long. 75� W. Our money is of two general kinds, paper and coins. This view has to do only with the making of metals into coins. Our goverment does its own money making. It buys silver, gold, bronze, copper, and nickel; stores these metals in vaults, and makes them into coins as fast as they are called for. If the gold or silver brought to the mint is not in the form of bars it is first melted. Then the metal is tested for its purity. The next process is that of refining. By this process the impurities are removed from the gold and silver. This is performed by electricity. When the metal is pure enough it is mixed with an alloy. Either gold or silver, by itself, would be too soft to make coins. A harder metal must be mixed with them. When this mixture is made, the combined metal is cast into shapes, called ingots. The ingots are sent to coining room. It is a series of the coining presses in the Philadelphia mint that is here shown. The bars of silver or gold, as the case may be, are placed under heavy steel rollers which draw them down to a certain thickness. They then pass to the cutting presses, where punches strike off the coins a bit smaller and thicker than the finished coins are to be. Each of the blank coins is then weighed to see that it contains the proper number of grains. Then it is ready for the coining press. Here on these great presses each coin is caught between an upper and a lower die. These dies press so tightly together, and are of such great weight, that the peoper figure is stamped on the coin. At the same time the coin is pressed thinner. Among our silver coins are the dollar, the half dollar, the quarter, and the dime. What is the five-cent piece made of? The cent piece? Copyright by The Keystone View Company.

Mark Borckardt Numismatic Postcards (Varied Formats)

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1. Post-card with embossed US coins and German text

2. Wooden post card

3. Reverse side and Wooden post card

4. United States Min, Denver, Colo. and Reverse side

5. United States Min, Denver, Colo.

6. U.S. Treasury and Reverse side

7. U.S. Treasury

8. La Monnaie, Paris and Reverse side

9. La Monnaie, Paris

10. Reverse side and Keystone View Company