3. When a Pattern Piece is adopted and used in the regular coinage in the same year it shall then be issued as a proof, at a price near its current value; or if it comes out early in the year, it will be placed in the regular Proof Set. The Superintendent will furnish, without charge, on application therefor, a Pattern Piece to any incorporated Numismatic Society in the United States. In such cases, if the pattern is in Gold or Silver, the value of the metal will be required.
4. The price of the regular Proof Set of Gold Coins will be Forty-three Dollars; the Proof Set of Silver and Minor Coins, Three Dollars. Single Gold Pieces, in proof, are sold at Twenty-five Cents each above their intrinsic value. Silver Sets are not separated. Proof sets are furnished of the current year only. The Mint has no Coins or Sets of back dates for sale.
5. The Coins of the United States are:—
| Gold. | Silver. | Copper-Nickel. |
|---|---|---|
| Double-Eagle, | Dollar, | Five Cents. |
| Eagle, | Half-Dollar, | Three Cents. |
| Half-Eagle, | Quarter-Dollar, | |
| Three-Dollar, | Dime. | Bronze. |
| Quarter-Eagle, | One Cent. | |
| Dollar. |
The coinage of the Silver Dollar of 412½ grains, the Five and Three-Cent Silver Pieces and Bronze Two-Cent Pieces was discontinued in 1873, but the Silver Dollar was restored by the Act of February 28, 1878.
All orders must be sent to Superintendent of the Mint at Philadelphia.
DANIEL M. FOX,
Superintendent.
PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON.
The frontispiece in the bound volume of this book, is an exact reproduction, by the Gutekunst phototype process, of the obverse of the Washington medal executed by Charles C. Wright, about the year 1850, and particularly described on page 34 of the “Medallic Portraits of Washington,” by W. S. Baker, lately published (the price of which is five dollars). The bust was modeled by Wright, after the original by the celebrated French sculptor, Jean Antoine Houdon, executed from a cast taken from the face of Washington at Mount Vernon, in October, 1785, and is considered by good judges to be the best medallic portrait of Washington yet produced. An impression of the medal is in the Washington Cabinet of the Mint; the reverse presents an excellent copy of Trumbull’s well known picture of the Declaration of Independence.