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Title: The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Anderson, Joseph, 1836-1916, ed Prichard, Sarah J. (Sarah Johnson), 1830-1909 Ward, Anna Lydia, b. 1850?
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New Haven, The Price and Lee company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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country was in a transition state,the whole series of the gold, silver and copper coins of the nationshowing marked variations in design, until the year 1842 broughtat length the uninteresting and expressionless coinage now so ♦There is a small error in each of the quoted sums, made in converting weight into money. 1056 HI8T0RY OF WATERBURY. aggravating to American numismatists.* That the question of theright of private individuals to coin money should arise is a naturalresult of the discussions which a free people is apt to indulge in.Series of tokens that passed current as money have been commonin England and in other countries. The old German city of Nurem-berg has a curious set of these coins, and one of the most interest-ing series in English numismatics, exhibiting much artistic meritas well as national feeling, is the set of tradesmens tokens in far-thing, half-penny and penny sizes, issued from 1788 to 1800. It wasbut natural, then, that the Scovill Manufacturing company of
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TOKENS FOR HARD TIMES. MADE IN WATERBURY, 1S34 TO 1 Waterbury should issue such tokens.f The fact that their issue wassuppressed does not destroy their claim to remembrance, for theywere a most interesting series, and much more American in senti-ment and in individuality than the current series of national coins. * The first pattern gold dollar is a product of this period. The coinage of silver dollars, discontinued in1804, was resumed in 1836, the date of the gold dollar. The silver half dollar passed through three types andtv/elve varieties; the silver quarters, dimes and half dimes were almost as varied, and the one year 1839 sawfour varieties of the copper cent. It was in 1838, too, that the branch mint at New Orleans was established,and thus the period was one of numismatic as well as of political turmoil. + Several years later, express companies, firms and private individuals disputed the governments right tothe exclusive issue of postage stamps, and these parties printed and so

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