Show I 1 CENTURY OF COINAGE our oar mints mint have been turning out oat cola coin just jat year yeam the present year completes the century since the mint was fairly established and began the work of making coin says J B mcmaster in the forum A review of 0 f that century malies makes clear to us t that h at the first great currency question with which theroun the country had to deal was whether there should be a national coinage or a legal anegal izing and re rating of the debased foreign i coin of revolutionary pre revo lutio nary days day s the chartering of the banks of the united states and the rise of state banks settled this question and gave the country a paper currency based on foreign coin the winding up of the second united states banks and beginning of gold mining brought up in 1834 the second great currency question which was shall the money 1 of the country be hard or soft m metallic e tallie or paper the gold coin act of 1834 was the attempt to settle this and brought on OB the first bimetallic di discus acus sio never held in congress afie at temp a failure A false ratio and the unexpected discovery of gold in california de silver and the fractional fractions frac tiona i silver coin act of 1835 marked the second effort to preserve I 1 and n d silver anver once more the effort proved vain and the acts of 1873 1878 and 1890 foH followed owed |