Mint Marks: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Ninetieth Congress, First Session on S. 1008, a Bill to Repeal the Prohibition Against Mint Marks on Coins of the United States, May 2, 1967

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Strana 26 - ... the United States shall be established as follows: One branch at the city of New Orleans for the coinage of gold and silver; one branch at the town of Charlotte in Mecklinburg county, in the state of North Carolina, for the coinage of gold only; and one branch at or near Dahlonega.
Strana 21 - Babelon2 as (1) Symbols. (2) Latin letters or syllables. (3) Greek letters. (4) Monograms. (5) Numbers, rising in large issues as high as CC, and on the coins of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi to CCIDD (10,000).
Strana 26 - I repeat the recommendation that a branch of the Mint of the United States be established at the city of New York. The importance of this measure is greatly increased by the acquisition of the rich mines of the precious metals in New Mexico and California, and especially in the latter. I repeat the recommendation heretofore made in favor of the graduation and reduction of the price of such...
Strana 19 - The balance of this study consists of quotations from a variety of references or brief summaries of their contents. ******* ANCIENT GREEK COINS Classification of symbols "Another very large division of the second class of symbols comprise those which denote a Mint. Such are many of the symbols on the coins struck in imitation of the tetradrachms of Alexander the Great. On these, for example, the rose is the mint mark of Rhodes, the helmet of Mesembria, the race-torch of Amphipolis, the bee of Ephesus....
Strana 19 - On the Athenian tetradrachms of the ' new style ' we find a number of abbreviations which seem to indicate the various officinae or workshops of the mint. In a time when all the coins were struck by hand there is nothing astonishing in the existence of a great number of workshops in the mint of a city of which the coinage was as extensive as the Athenian. Most of these abbreviations seem to represent names, possibly of gods or heroes after whom the various workshops were named. Five of them occur...
Strana 21 - The Numismatic Scrapbook magazine, July 1946, Volume XII, No. 7, Chicago, Illinois — "Mint Marks on Roman Coins" by Paul Pennington. The Roman Mint Little more is known of the Roman mint than of the Greek. The letters and monograms which occur on the early Republican coins denote extra- Roman mints (KA for Capua and the like). When these mints were closed, letters, monograms, and symbols representing the monetary magistrates were placed on the coins. Finally, w-hen it became the custom for the...
Strana 22 - ... signatures) and mint-marks. The latter are either the actual names of cities — usually abbreviated, as BY for Byzantium, CON for Constantinople, TR for Trier, SIS for Siscia; or marks indicating the...
Strana 12 - I would like to call on Mr. Gainey for just a brief statement. Mr. GAINEY. Mr. Chairman, I think the matter has been pretty well covered. I would like to leave this statement with you, Mr. Davis. This gives you a photographic presentation which I think would be of interest to the committee. We have divided the project into four sections ; three of them are provided for with the money they have had, leaving only this one to be done, with the $773,000. Mr. KERB. And it will not be worth much until...
Strana 26 - That the general direction of the business of said branch of the Mint of the United States shall be under the control and regulation of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, subject to the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury; and, for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the said director to prescribe such regulations and require such returns, periodically and occasionally...
Strana 26 - Branches of the Mint of the United States shall be established as follows: One branch at the city of New Orleans for the coinage of gold and silver; one branch at the town of Charlotte in Mecklinburg county, in the state of North Carolina, for the coinage of gold only...

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