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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2638600, member: 66&quot;]The President did not put up the bond, I believe he may have had a hand in reducing it from $10,000 to $5,000 for the Chief Coiner and $1,000 for the Assayer.&nbsp; (Nope it was the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson who interceded with the Congress to get the bonds reduced,)&nbsp; If I remember correctly Rittenhouse put up the bond for one of the men, I don&#039;t remember who put it up for the other one.&nbsp; Roger Burdette has found the published the actual bond documents.&nbsp; I may have a copy of them but not readily at hand.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If the book you were thinking about is <i>The Secret History of the United States Mint,</i> by Joel Oroz and Leonard Augsburger, it is not in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK it looks like Rittenhouse put up the bond for the Chief Coiner Henry Voight, and Gilbert Gilchrist put up the bond for the assayer Albion Cox[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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