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United States Mint engraver George T. Morgan made sketches of a possible design for a $100 coin in 1876, should the half union ever be a success. When the mint concluded that the half union (a gold coin weighing about 2.7 troy ounces or 83.6 grams) was infeasible, the idea of a union coin was discarded and forgotten.
The U.S. dollar became an important international reserve currency after the First World War, and displaced the pound sterling as the world's primary reserve currency by the Bretton Woods Agreement towards the end of the Second World War. The dollar is the most widely used currency in international transactions, [4] and a free-floating currency.
The Quarter-Dollar, Half-Dollar and Dollar coins were issued in the copper 91.67% nickel 8.33% composition for general circulation and the Government issued six-coin Proof Set. A special three-coin set of 40% silver coins were also issued by the U.S. Mint in both Uncirculated and Proof.
Map of a theoretical NAU, with Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America. The currency symbol for the hypothetical Amero, by the Fraser Institute. The North American monetary union is a theoretical economic and monetary union of three North American countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The Confederate States dollar was first issued just before the outbreak of the American Civil War by the newly formed Confederacy. It was not backed by hard assets, but simply by a promise to pay the bearer after the war, on the prospect of Southern victory and independence.
The half union (separate varieties known as J-1546 through J-1549 [1]) was a United States pattern coin with a face value of fifty U.S. Dollars.It is often thought of as one of the most significant and well-known patterns in the history of the U.S. Mint.
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The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical economic and political continental union of Canada, Mexico and the United States, the three largest and most populous countries in North America. The concept is loosely based on the European Union , occasionally including a common currency called the amero or the North American Dollar.