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Excerpt from Mason's Monthly Illustrated Coin Collector's Magazine and Coin Price Current, Vol. 1: June 1884 When these facts are considered, and the labor they symbolize is Of an elementary nature only, some idea may be formed of the care, vigilance, and expense, of getting such a book ready for the press; and, filling as it does, a niche, vacant throughout all ages, in archaeological literature, the value of its accession to the library of the scholar, the counter of the money-changer, or the cabinet of the numismatist, must be patent. A work containing some twelve hundred octavo pages, including the whole range of the subjects of which it treats, not only during the Christian era, but reaching back to prehistoric ages, and giving, traditionally, the modes of barter and exchange of the ancients, with anecdotes, and superstitions of the period; after which come the coins referred to in the Bible, followed by illustrations, the legends and histories of the coins of Egypt, Asia, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Bel gium, Holland, the German Empire, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Japan, Hungary, Switzerland, Bolivia, China, Chili, Argentine Republic, Abyssinia, Great Britain and Possessions, North, South, and Central Americas, Peru, Paraguay, U. S. Of Colombia, and New Granada, Private Coinage: etc., with fac-similes of the early California coins, and elegant engravings of the Mints of this and other countries, with an Appendix on the Mintage of the Southern Confederacy, etc., etc. The name Of the author, John S. Dye, is known in all commercial circles. As early as 1836, we find published in Graham's Magazine, his lectures on counterfeit money, and the coins of the world. In 1850, he established Dye's Counterfeit Detector and Coin Chart. The former is still published, and is known the world over. Very few banks on this continent are without it, and as it is held as a safe criterion on the paper currency of this country, so will this, his Coin Encyclopaedia, be regarded on the Coins of the world. In addition to coins and their concomitants, the author rehearses analytically, and at great length, the precious metal resources of the world from the earliest discoveries, together with the hardships of pioneer miners, the opposition met with from natives, ending often in war to the knife, and the knife to the hilt; introducing many anecdotes and reminiscences never before published, intensely interesting to all readers, but especially so to Old forty-niners, and those having ventured their all in mining Operations in and beyond the Rockies. In addition to all this vast fund of valuable numismatic information, we have compiled, from Official sources, a state ment of the Coinage, from the organization of the Mint in 1793 to 1882, inclusive, together with all the Acts of Congress authorizing Coinage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
