. New varieties of gold and silver coins, counterfeit coins and bullion, with mint values by Jacob R. Eckfeldt, and William E. Du Bois. they would seem to be not far fromstandard mint value, as is said to be the sig-nification of the initials S. M. V. on the are still closer to the genuine mint coin inrespect to the artful and successful imitation ofthe devices on the half-eagle; so that an inatten-tive person, unless he were struck by the dif-ference of colour, would unhesitatingly receivethem as legal tender. The other variety is a ten-dollar piece, bear-ing on one side the lege
. New varieties of gold and silver coins, counterfeit coins and bullion, with mint values by Jacob R. Eckfeldt, and William E. Du Bois. they would seem to be not far fromstandard mint value, as is said to be the sig-nification of the initials S. M. V. on the are still closer to the genuine mint coin inrespect to the artful and successful imitation ofthe devices on the half-eagle; so that an inatten-tive person, unless he were struck by the dif-ference of colour, would unhesitatingly receivethem as legal tender. The other variety is a ten-dollar piece, bear-ing on one side the legend United States ofAmerica, Cal., and the initials J. S. 0. in thefield; reverse, 10 Dolls, in the field, and 31stars around the border. It is somewhat diffi-cult to keep the count of our states, but it isplain that this constellation must include Cali-fornia. The responsibility of this issue must,however, rest upon J. S. 0., and not upon theUnited States. The piece assayed gave— Proportion of gold, 842 thous. silver, 126 copper, &c, 32 1000- The weight being 258J grains, (a good ad-justment,) the resulting value was $9
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