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English: Sketch for pattern silver coins (half dime through half dollar) by Mint Engraver James B. Longacre
Date circa 1859
date QS:P,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Scanned from page 224 of Don Taxay, The U.S. Mint and Coinage (1966). Taxay credits the Library Company of Philadelphia. Longacre was an employee of the Federal Government as Engraver to the Philadelphia Mint, and so sketches in preparation for a coin are in the course of duties.
Author James B. Longacre, a federal employee in the performance of his duties made the sketch.
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This image is a work of the United States Department of the Treasury, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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