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FINENESS,
WEIGHT,
FACE
VALUE
AND
METAL
WORTH.
FULL
DESCRIPTION
WITH
EXACT
FAC-SIMILE
OF
OVER
*
SIX
NAME
THOUSAND
LISTS,
STATISTICS,
COINS.
&c.
HISTORICAL
DATA,
FULL
INDEX.
TABLES
FOR
CALCULATION,
REDUCTION,
COMPARISON,
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COMPLETE
IN
ONE
VOLUME.
PUBLISHED
BY
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533
M.
SMITH,
COPYRIGHT.
NUMISMATIST,
CHESTNUT
STREET.
POST-OFFICE
BOX,
754.
PHILADELPHIA,
PA.,
U.
S.
A.
1886.
GOLD
AND
SILVER
COINS
OFTHE
WORLD
By
a.
WL.
Sxiith.
INTRODUCTORY.
Mail}'
years
since,
upon
first
applying
myself
to
the
stud}'-
of
]Su-
mismatics,
I
diligently
sought
for
a
work
which
should
contain,
in
l)rief
form,
the
requisite
information
necessary
for
the
casual
in-
quirer
or
business
dealer
in
current
and
uncui-rent
coins
of
the
Such
a
book
did
not
exist.
Constant
demands
from
Banks,
Bankers,
Brokers,
and
Merchants
for
a
work
of
this
character,
since
I
became
a
publisher,
and
the
ever
repeated
regrets
of
experts
and
world.
students
in
the
science,
that
they
could
obtain
nothing
of
the
kind,
with
frequent
requests
from
all,
that
I
would
prejiare,
write,
or
compile,
such
a
text-book,
finally
induced
nie
to
undertake
tlie
onerous
labor,
the
results
of
which
are
presented
in
The
Excyclo-
p.EDiA
OF
Gold
and
Silykr
Coins
op
the
World.
Of
works
upon
Numismatics,
and
of
"
Coin
Books,"
within
the
last
two
hundred
3'ears,
there
has
been
issued
an
immense
number,
many
of
them
very
valuable
in
specialities;
but
none
universal
in
application,
all
crowded
with
unnecessary
matter,
and
nob
one
adapted
to
the
requirement
of
ever\
-day
business
life
or
students'
reference.
To
translate
many
of
these
works
from
the
Latin,
Greek,
French,
German,
Italian,
and.
other
languages;
to
compare,
sift,
select,
and
verify
all
the
mass,
and
to
condense
the
information
to
the
utmost,
comprises
but
a
portion
of
my
task.
Correspondence
was
entered
into
with
tlie
Financial
]\Iinisters
of
every
nation
on
the
earth
possessing
a
coinage
official
reports
only
were
received
as
authority;
every
channel,
every
source
of
knowledge
was
ex-
Our
own
and
foreign
liausted
to
obtain
autlientie,
reliable
data.
;
;
-7
mints,
national
and
private;
museums,
collections,
and
cabinets
have
given
copies
of
tlieir
treasures
to
our
artist's
pencil.
Foreign
and
Home
departments,
financial
institutions
and
financiers,
the
most
distinguished
scientists,
have
all
generously
responded
to
every
application
for
information
and
material.
The
results
of
long'^years
of
study
and
dearly
bought
experience;
large
sums
of
money
for
importations
of
literature,
purchase
of
rare,
costly
vol-
umes,
specimen
i.died
upon
coins,
artistic
and
clerical
labor,
have
all
been
lav-
this
work
to
render
it
complete
and
correct,
an
authority
beyond
question,
an
embracement
of
the
entire
field.
In
the
interests
of
the
science
to
which
I
have
been
so
long
de-
voted,
to
justify
the
flattering
opinion
expressed
by
those
who
de-
sired
this
work
from
my
hands,
to aid,
so
far
as
in
my
power,
in
systemizing
money
and
commercial
transactions,
and
for
my
own
reputation,
I
have
expended
upon
The
Excyclop.edia
an
amount
of
hard,
conscientious
labor
for
which
money
cannot
recompense
me.
figures
alone
I
have
dealt,
and
to
present
these
in
the
plainest
possible
form,
arranged
for
the
mo-^t
speedy
and
sole
object.
satisfactory
reference,
has
been
work
well
done
Without
egotism
I
may
say
that
I
consider
whole
range
of
literature
devoted
to
numismatics
or
coined
in
the
money
there
is
and
has
never
been,
a
volume
so
exhaustive
in
ex-
planation
and
illustration
or
so
certainly
reliable
as
this
Encyclo-
Errors
there
may
be;
mistakes
will
creep
into
the
most
paedia.
carefully
edited
works.
I
have
discovered
them
in
every
authority,
consequently
I
cannot,
official
document
or
statement
I
have
used
do
not,
claim
infallibility,
and
will
thankfully
receive
corrections.
I
be-
.Just,
fair
criticism
is
invited,
and
will
be
heartily
welcomed.
most
complete,
the
only
complete
book
to
be
the
best
and
lieve
work
of
its
kind,
ever
issued,
and,
claiming
that
high
standard,
I
friends
and
the
public
witliout
further
apology
or
olfer
it
to
With
facts
and
my
my
;
my
my
commendation.
Philadelphia,
March,
1SS6.
A.
^I.
S:\IITIT.
21
35G0
ji.

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