A manual of gold and silver coins of all nations, struck within the past century showing their history, and legal basis, and their actual weight, fineness, and value, chiefly from original and recent assays ... with recent statistics of the production and coinage of gold and silver in the world, and sundry useful tables
"Illustrated by numerous engravings of coins executed by the medal-ruling machine, and under the direction, of Joseph Saxton of the United States Mint."