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Show i m ril LEHI FREE PRESS. I.Em m Gatun Locks "Dressed Up" After -- lite-' ' 20Y7 ... ittau Vta o Real Artistic Merit in American Gold Coinage v The first gold colas Issued by the Infant United States, writes Gwendo line Keene In the Boston Transcript, came In 1705, from the Philadelphia mint, still jut leading one. There were eagle and $10 and V : .: U- -, ' I A $5. Double eagles are the highest r a J -i . rrt i i the government has ever gone, ex cept when wi celebrated the Pan r I exposition wlta a $50 . -j nl f ;cfp-piece. The ones minted until Just now were from quarter-eagle- s to M-- ... lj M doubles, but we have minted dollars, $3 and $4 (very rare). We started f i X right In with the head of Liberty and an eagle. In the beginning she was a rather countrified looking lass, and the eagle was a bit scrawny, but he soon swelled out to heraldic size and the lady took on more poise. They changed very little In the next 100 years. It was the days of the Forty-niner- s that brought In the novelties. Tiring of gold dust exchange. Individuals In San Francisco, Denver, Salt Lake The Panama canal Is In the throe of a "house pin, !., and other centers, melted up the City the locks years auJ buildings ! JUfcli!"!7 0f the canal receive a thorough cleaning and painting and ti. .Ik gold dust, with enough alloy to keep uee "as completed at Gatun locks. It together and put out gold coins. Some of these were very fine copies of the government Issues, distinguishable only by the name of the issuer, so small that sometimes It fitted in Liberty's coronet Others were frankly original, such as one of the $50 slugs of 1S51 Issued by Augustus Humbert In California. It Is eight-sideand easily dented because of its considerable weight. You hold It, as you should hold all 'rare coins, gingerly, In thumb and finger, by the edge. By 1907 we were getting artistic, and that year the beautiful double-eagl-e was of Augustus minted along v.ith new designs for the three other gold pieces. As first s was In struck, the quite high relief, because the face was distinctly concave. It has a full- length Liberty striding forward and an eagle In full flight, but it "nearly raised the roof," says Mr. Pond, secretary of the Boston Numismatic 1 " " .m,-MyM.- ,w, f society, because It left off "In God ,., , ,.,l..,Mn.w We Trust" This had been on since Handwriting experts, called by the defense In the Hauptmann trial, !n conference with Hauptmann'g Civil war days when a clergyman wrote to the secretary of the treasury calling his attention to the fact that "recognition of eur dependence upon Almighty God has been overlooked on our currency." It came out 4 til; V Ms :- half-eagle- s . ' ama-PacIh- c !HThH? 4g r s' first as "God Our Trust" coin had to be flattened out after the first Issue because It didn't stack up welt but the design has been used ever si see, with "In God We Trust" put back almost Immediately. We are the only large nation today that uses any religious reference on its coins, but In early times the French used "Blessed be the name of the Lord" (In Latin) and later In French, "God Protect France." Salnt-Gauden- Beauty Hiat If yon would have bright THESE PICTURES Modem Three-M'mu- eyea, SHOW Way to te Ease Sore Throat Ease Pain, Rawness, Soreness Almost Instantly Array of Hauptmann Defense Writing Experts Li Te fact la that India was never "discovered" in the aflinary sense f the word. It has a history going back thousands of years. 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