1860 HARPER'S READER DESCRIPTION OF U.S. COINS
The E-Sylum (7/21/2013)
Book Content
Rich Hartzog forwarded these images from the Harper Series School & Family Readers: The First Reader, the Second book of Reading, 1860. Thanks! This is a book from the dawn of American numismatics, which blossomed after the introduction of small cents in 1857. This illustrates one way the population was educated about the new coins. -Editor
