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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 578069, member: 66&quot;]LIBERTY, Parent of Science and Industry.&nbsp; We were to be a modern and advanced nation and these advances would be the result of our Liberty, freedoms, and self determination, rather than the oppression of a tyrannical monarchy.</p><p><br /></p><p>And most likely 1500 patterns were coined.&nbsp; They were then turned over to the Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, who entered the amount into his own personal account books.&nbsp; The pieces were not turned over to Washington as they would most likely have been if he had provided the bullion.&nbsp; (At the time the Mint was under the governemental control of the State Dept, not the Treasury.&nbsp; So Jefferson was in control of the Mint not Alexander Hamilton.&nbsp; Otherwise Hamilton might have gotten them.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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