A description of ancient and modern coins, in the cabinet collection at the Mint of the United States
Snowden, James Ross (1860)
Book Summary
A guide to the Mint Cabinet contents as of 1860, along with a short introduction on the technological history of coin production. By this time the Mint Cabinet had substantial and varied holdings of ancient, foreign, and United States material. The pictorial plates are on embossed paper with gold, silver, and copper coloring applied.