Book/Printed Material Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the results of the investigation made pursuant to the joint resolution of the 26th February, 1857, "to prevent the counterfeiting of the coins of the United States." June 14, 1860. -- Read, and ordered to be printed
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 SENATE 36tii Congress 1st Session Ex Doc No 53 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OE THE TREASURY COMMUNICATING The results of the investigation made pursuant to the joint resolution of the 26 th…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 2 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS I am aware that a specific and detailed estimate of this character can hardly he expected hut I will thank you to furnish such an approx imation…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS a will endeavor by conveying to the department the information we possess to enable it to arrive at some general opinion The devices of Dr Barclay will require…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 4 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS Philadelphia May 19 1860 Being conversant with the plans proposed by Dr J T Barclay for the improvement of the coinage having been engaged in the recent…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS 5 Barclay to often spend much time in the effort to devise cheap expe dients to accomplish ends for which the appropriation of Congress would have been altogether…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 6 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS counterfeiting and deterioration of the coins of the United States into Avhich we have been appointed to inquire are the property of Dr Barclay or have been…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS 7 others have arrived at based upon the experiments heretofore con ducted upon the subject By experiments made in the British mint and at the Mint of the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Image 8 of Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the results of the investigation …
Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 8 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS ence to the counterfeiting and debasement of the coins of the country and in order to feel prepared to form a more correct judgment of the feasibility…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS 9 It is attended with so little profit compared with other modes of counterfeiting on account of the skill and machinery required that it is not extensively practiced…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 10 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS X THE EVICERATING FRAUD This very lucrative mode of impairing coin without appreciably diminishing its weight or affecting either the impressions on its face its dimensions or…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS 11 This danger arises from the cheapness facility and impunity from discovery with which a profitable amount of gold or silver can he re moved from the coins…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 12 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS By ascertaining first through a careful survey of the subject the nature of the various fraudulent practices to which our coins are ex posed and thereby obtaining…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 COUNTERFEITING UNITED STATES COINS 13 is altogether within the reach of the present advanced skill in work manship and perfection in mechanism to combine in our coinage all the improvements which Dr…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53 V- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Department of the Treasury - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1860
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- Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating the results of the investigation made pursuant to the joint resolution of the 26th February, 1857, "to prevent the counterfeiting of the coins of the United States." June 14, 1860. -- Read, and ordered to be printed
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- Cited as: S. Ex. Doc. 36-53
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- United States Congress. Senate
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. Senate, author
- United States. Department of the Treasury
Created / Published
- Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1860.
Headings
- - Coins
- - Coinage
- - Counterfeits and counterfeiting
- - Inventions
- - Research
- - Security systems
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- Government publication
- Legislative materials
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- 1 online resource (13 pages).
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- KF12
- 36-1:S.EX.DOC.53
- Y 1.1/2:1033
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- 2024797623
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- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Department of the Treasury
- United States. Government Publishing Office