coin silver
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The suffragist Susan B. Anthony was the first woman to be featured on a circulating U.S. coin; silver dollars with her image were first released in 1979.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
If Congress agrees, the entire 1.7 billion ounces of silver now held as paper currency backing can be used for coins, giving the Treasury enough coin silver for the next 35 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gold pieces were principally coined, and in proportion as gold was coined it became more and more difficult to coin silver.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
All this jewelry was of a fair workmanship, such as is made by Navajo silversmiths out of coin silver.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by Hartmann, George (Henry George August)
This bill simply directs that the Secretary of the Treasury shall purchase this bullion and shall coin silver coin and substitute that in the place of fractional currency.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John
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