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The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin; Pt.i. Letters on Miscellaneous Subjects
The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin Pti Letters on Miscellaneous Subjects Author:Benjamin Franklin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Printed for H. Colburn Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where ... more »you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: To Mr. Bridgen, London. On copper coinage for the United States. Dear Sir, Passy, October2, 1779. I received your favor of the 17th past, and the two samples of copper are since come to hand. The metal seems to be very good, and the price reasonable, but I have not yet received the orders necessary to justify my making the purchase proposed. There has indeed been an intention to strike copper coin that may not only be useful as small change, but serve other purposes. Instead of repeating continually upon every halfpenny the dull story that every body knows (and what it would have been no loss to mankind if nobody had ever known), that Geo. III. is king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland,« less