A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century : showing their history, and legal basis, and their actual weight, fineness, and value, chiefly from original and recent assays : with which are incorporated treatises on bullion and plate, counterfeit coins, specific gravity of precious metals, etc. : with recent statistics of the production and coinage of gold and silver in the world, and sundry useful tables / by Jacob R. Eckfeldt and William E. Du Bois.
| Author/creator | Eckfeldt, Jacob R. |
| Other author | Du Bois, William E. (William Ewing), 1810-1881. |
| Other author | Saxton, Joseph, 1799-1873. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia (Pa.) : Published at the Assay Office of the Mint, 1842. |
| Description | 220 pages, xvi leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Available to subscribing institutions |
| Subjects |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | "Illustrated by numerous engravings of coins executed by the medal-ruling machine, and under the direction, of Joseph Saxton of the United States mint." |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University. |
| General note | Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 32914.12. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. |