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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 824842, member: 19065&quot;]<b><i><font size="2">Just an FYI for all who may be interested in some antique numismatic reading material:</font></i></b></p><p><b><br /></b> </p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: Blue">★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★ </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: Blue"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: Blue"></span></font> In another thread on some of our personal <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t93703/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t93703/">Numismatic Libraries</a>, a title was shown that piqued my interest, so I did an online search and discovered that Google has scanned the entire contents of this particular title and made it available on Google Books. </p><p><br /></p><p>This means it is also available as a PDF that you can download and read offline for those interested in keeping a personal digital copy. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Just follow the link below to browse the title or search the title itself in <a href="http://books.google.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Books</a>:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<b><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PfstAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PP12&amp;ots=w3UUaphuX4&amp;dq=History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Mint%20and%20American%20Coinage%20Ancient%20and%20Modern&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=PfstAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PP12&amp;ots=w3UUaphuX4&amp;dq=History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Mint%20and%20American%20Coinage%20Ancient%20and%20Modern&amp;pg=PP1#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">History of the United States Mint and American Coinage, Ancient and Modern</a> by George G. Evans</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<b>Book description: </b></p><p>With a complete description of American coinage, from the earliest period to the present time. The process of melting, refining, assaying, and coining gold and silver fully described, with biographical sketches of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, John Jay Knox, others. Glossary of mint terms, tables, prototypes, steel plate portraits, wood engravings. </p><p>&nbsp;<b></b></p><p><b>Published:</b> Philadelphia, 1886</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<font size="4"><span style="color: Blue">★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★&nbsp; ★ </span></font><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Thanks to that great thread by <b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/members/rickieb/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/members/rickieb/"><b>RickieB</b></a></b> and for <b><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/members/connor1/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/members/connor1/">connor1</a></b>&#039;s shared contribution there as well as thanks to the merits of the Google Books project to bring this rare numismatic title to us all!</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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