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The Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States.By ending the right of holders of silver bullion to have it coined into standard silver dollars, while allowing holders of gold to continue to have their bullion made into money, the act created a gold standard by default.
Coinage Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. 72) Coinage Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5 c. 3) Coinage Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6 c. 74) Coinage Act 1971, made provisions for decimalisation of the pound sterling; Coinage (Measurement) Act 2011, amended the Coinage Act 1971 to allow the method for measuring and confirming the weight of coins to be set by proclamation
English: This is a draft of the unenacted bill, as passed by the House of Representatives in the form ready to be considered by the Senate. It is not, in this form, necessarily the correct language of the final statute. Text of the Coinage Act of 1873, H.R. 2934
Production of patterns continued into 1873, but the denomination of the pattern coins was changed from "commercial dollar" to "trade dollar" before the bill was signed into law. [13] After passage of the Coinage Act, Linderman met with Director of the Mint James Pollock to discuss the design of the newly authorized trade dollar. [13]
5-Mark coin of William II. The federal states of the German Empire were allowed to issue their own silver coins in denominations of 2 and 5 marks from 1873. The Coinage Act of 9 July 1873 regulated how the coins were to be designed: On the obverse or image side only the state sovereign or the coat of arms of the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen or Lübeck was to be depicted, and the coin had to ...
The Coinage Act of 1792 (also known as the Mint Act; officially: An act establishing a mint, and regulating the Coins of the United States), passed by the United States Congress on April 2, 1792, created the United States dollar as the country's standard unit of money, established the United States Mint, and regulated the coinage of the United States. [1]
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John Jay Knox Jr. (March 19, 1828 – February 9, 1892) [2] was an American financier and government official. He is best remembered as a primary author of the Coinage Act of 1873, which discontinued the use of the silver dollar.