Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States - A Complete Encyclopedia

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-- United States Mint and Coinage. New York: Arco Publications, 1966.

Teletrade, New York, New York. 1980s and 1990s. Auction listings and prices realized.

Thompson, Thomas H. and Albert A. West. History of Nevada and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, 1881. Reprint: Berkeley, CA: Howell-North, 1958. Among the patrons of the original work was James Crawford, superintendent of the Carson City Mint.

Trager, James. The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979. This provided an important source for general historical background information.

United States House of Representatives. Various documents c. 1840-1935.

United States Mint, Bureau of the Mint, et al. Annual Report of the Director of the Mint. Philadelphia (later, Washington), 1795-1990. Note: Reports were on a calendar year basis through 1856, then in 1857 they went to a fiscal year (July 1 through June 30 of the following year) basis. The 1857 report is transitional and covers only January 1 through June 30, 1857, a period of six months.

United States Senate. Various documents c. 1840-1935. Upton, J.K. Money in Politics. Boston, 1884.

Van Allen, Leroy C. "1878 7/8 Tailfeathers Silver Dollar:How and Why." Article in Numismatic Scrapbook, April 1965.

-- "Total Uncirculated Silver Dollars Remaining." Chapter in The Comprehensive U.S. Silver Dollar Encyclopedia. Broken Arrow, OK: Highfill Press, Inc., 1992.

Van Allen, Leroy C. and A. George Mallis. Comprehensive Catalogue and Encyclopedia of U.S. Morgan and Peace Dollars. New York: FCI Press, 1976. Revised edition titled Comprehensive Catalog and Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace Dollars. Virginia Beach, VA: DLRC Press, 1992.

Vermeule, Cornelius. Numismatic Art in America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, Harvard, 1971.

Vettel, Donald. "Some Thoughts on Liberty Seated Dollars: A Scarcity and Price Analysis." The Gobrecht Journal, July 1982. This is an excellent discussion from a collecting viewpoint of business strike Liberty Seated dollars, their surface characteristics and values, in grades of Fine, Extremely Fine, and Uncirculated.

Voetter, Thomas W. "The 1935-S Peace Dollar Die Variety."Article in The Numismatist, October 1940.

von Bergen, William. The Rare Coins of America. Boston, Massachusetts: Numismatic Bank, 5th edition, 1891. A general buying list giving prices paid for United States and other coins, including silver dollars and trade dollars.

Wallechinsky, David and Irving Wallace. The People's Almanac. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1975.

Weir, William. Sixty Years in Canada. Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1903. An account by the secretary of the Tariff Reform Association of 1858 and government agent for the exportation of American silver in 1870, of the fiscal situation in Canada during the last half of the nineteenth century. (An interesting account is also included of the St. Albans raid.)

Weisel, Arthur S. "Mint State Seated Dollars: Population Report Numbers Versus Conventional Wisdom." Article in The Gobrecht Journal, March 1990.

White, Harlan. "Telling it Like It Was." Chapter in The Comprehensive U.S. Silver Dollar Encyclopedia. Broken Arrow, OK: HighfIll Press, Inc., 1992.

White, Horace. Money and Banking. Boston: Ginn & Company, i896. A very nice overview of nineteenth century economics, with numerous mentions of coins, broken bank notes, and other items of numismatic interest.

White, Weimar W. "A Profile of the 1870-CC Dollar." Article in The Gobrecht Journal, March 1983.

-- "Estimating Proof Mintages for Early Seated Dollars." Article in The Gobrecht Journal, November 1990.

-- "Have You Ever Seen a Prooflike 1876-CC Trade Dollar?" Article in The Gobrecht Journal, July 1991.

-- "How Many 1858 Liberty Seated Dollars Were Really Minted." Article in The Gobrecht Journal, July 1990.

-- The Liberty Seated Dollar 1840-1873. New York: Sanford J. Durst Numismatic Publications, 1985. A study of the series, with many useful comments concerning availability and rarity of various issues.

Wiley, Randall E. "Die Shipments and Coinage Delivery Dates for the Carson City Branch Mint in the Year 1870." Article in The Gobrecht Journal, July 1988.

Willem, John M. The U.S. Trade Dollar. New York, 1959; Second (revised) Edition, Racine, Wisconsin, 1965.

-- "The Case of John Vaughan and the Rittenhouse Dollar." Article in the Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine, March 1957.

Winn, Frank G. The Crime of 1873. Testimony given by F.G. Winn, of Claremont, New Hampshire, as to "why the silver dollar was omitted in the Law of 1873." U.S. Senate Document No. 147, February 21,1898.

Winter, Douglas. Series of articles in The John Reich Journal, beginning in 1986, with updated commentary re Bolender die varieties.

Yeoman, R.S. A Guide Book of United States Coins. Whitman Publishing Company (and Western Publishing Company, Inc.), Racine, Wisconsin: various editions 1946 to date. (In recent years, Kenneth E. Bressett has been editor.)

Zerbe, Farran. "False Rarities." Article in The Numismatist, March 1944. Describes fake 1804 and 1805 dollars.

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