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2. Liberty dollar (private currency) - Wikipedia

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   Paper and digital Liberty Dollars were legally defined as warehouse receipts and were backed by a physical commodity: a weight in precious metal. 18 USC 486, however, makes it a crime to make, utter, or pass any coin or bar of gold, silver, or any other metal if it is intended to be used as money, so there is a definitive injunction against the ...

3. Seated Liberty dollar - Wikipedia

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   A cartoon from the April 9, 1870 issue of Harper's Weekly which anticipates the resumption of government payments in precious-metal coins. Numismatist and coin dealer Q. David Bowers believes that most Seated Liberty dollars produced after 1853 were shipped to China to pay for luxury goods, including tea and silk. [36] R. W.

4. Eagle (United States coin) - Wikipedia

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   With the exceptions of the gold dollar coin, the gold three-dollar coin, the three-cent nickel, and the five-cent nickel, the unit of denomination of coinage prior to 1933 was conceptually linked to the precious or semi-precious metal that constituted a majority of the alloy used in that coin. In this regard the United States followed long ...

5. American Silver Eagle - Wikipedia

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   The American Silver Eagle is the official silver bullion coin of the United States.It was first released by the United States Mint on November 24, 1986, and portrays the Goddess of Liberty in a design by Adolph A. Weinman that was originally used on the Walking Liberty half dollar from 1916 to 1947.

6. Liberty dollar - Wikipedia

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   Coronet large cent, an 1816 coin with a face value of 0.01 dollars; Liberty Head double eagle, an 1850 coin with a face value of 20 dollars; Liberty Head nickel, an 1883 coin with a face value of 0.05 dollars; Standing Liberty quarter, a 1916 coin with a face value of 0.25 dollars; Walking Liberty half dollar, a 1916 coin with a face value of 0 ...

7. United States Seated Liberty coinage - Wikipedia

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   The Seated Liberty design remained standard on all American coins ranging from half dimes to half dollars for decades, but by 1879 — the year after the Bland-Allison Act caused a drastic curtailment in the mintages of Seated Liberty half dollars, quarters, and even dimes until 1883, there was increased criticism and calls for its replacement ...