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Coinage Scheme Proposed by Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance

Kind
Personal Letter
Date
15 Jan 1782
Publisher
Executive Documents, Senate of the U.S., Third Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress, 1878-79
Retrieved
Jun 12, 2012

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