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
On this island a plant to print paper money, to coin silver.
From Constance Dunlap by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
These official medals are of four kinds: small gilt at $1; large bronze at $2; coin silver at $3; large gilt at $5, or all inclosed in one case at $11.
From The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand
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)
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