coinage
21Coinage of Asia — The earliest coinage of Asia is also the oldest coinage of the world. Coins were invented several times independently of each other. The earliest coins from the Mediterranean region are from the kingdom of Lydia, and are now dated ca. 600 BCE.… …
22Coinage Act of 1792 — The Coinage Act or the Mint Act, passed by the United States Congress on April 2, 1792, established the United States Mint and regulated the coinage of the United States.[1] The long title of the legislation is An act establishing a mint, and… …
23Coinage Act of 1834 — The Coinage Act of 1834 was passed by the United States Congress on June 27, 1834. It raised the silver to gold weight ratio from its 1792 level of 15:1 (established by the Coinage Act of 1792) to 16:1 thus setting the mint price for silver at a… …
24Coinage Act of 1873 — Caricature from Puck magazine, 1900. The Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the United States Congress in 1873 and embraced the gold standard and demonetized silver. Western mining interests and others who wanted silver in circulation years later… …
25Coinage Act of 1849 — The Coinage Act of 1849 or the Gold Coinage Act was an act of the United States Congress which allowed for the minting of two new denominations of gold coins, the gold dollar and the gold $20 or double eagle. It further defined the variances… …
26Coinage of the Tripura Kingdom — All Tripura coins are in the Bengali script but the language used is Sanskrit. Tripura was a predominantly tribal Kingdom (inhabited mainly by the Tripuri tribe) situated in the Eastern part of Bengal. According to traditional chronicles,… …
27Coinage Act of 1965 — The Coinage Act of 1965, Pub.L. 89 81, 79 Stat. 254, enacted July 23, 1965, eliminated silver from the circulating dimes and quarter dollars of the United States, and diminished the silver content of the half dollar from 90% to 40% …
28Coinage of the Social War (91–88 BC) — Denarius Laureate head of Italia left, Oscan retrograde legend right UILETIV [víteliú = Italia] …
29Coinage Act de 1873 — Le Coinage Act de 1873 est une loi fédérale votée par le congrès des États Unis le 12 février 1873[1] , souhaitant faire passer le pays du bimétallisme à un système plus proche de l étalon or. Il a été appelé aussi crime de 1873 , en raison de… …
30Coinage metals — The coinage metals comprise, at minimum, those metallic chemical elements which have historically been used as components in alloys used to mint coins. The term is not perfectly defined, however, since a number of metals have been used to make… …
