COINAGE AND CURRENCY IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE PERENNIAL CONTEST FOR SOUND MONEY BY A. BARTON HEPBURN, LL.D. EX-COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, EX-SUPERINTENDENT New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. 1903 All rights reserved HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up, electrotyped, and published September, 1903. Norwood Press 7. S. Cusbing & Co. Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Beck Do- 10/31/30-4788-7166 This Volume is inscribed to the Memory of Genius. ALEXANDER HAMILTON Patriot, Soldier, Financier, Statesman, Creative In the dawn of our national life, without guiding precedent, he evolved principles and developed systems of inestimable and lasting value to his countrymen. |