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Show B Coining of Yankee Dollars. mM It wtis in ITM that the congress of H the United states authorised the es- . B ttthllshment of a mint In Philadelphia. H With the founding of this institution B the "almighty dollar" began to come H into Its own. The Spanish dollar hud H been common In America for urs, B ami when Coventor Morris attempted BH to harmonise ail the moneys of the B tea he took the dollar as a stand- M IU'1. The i!atts of Mollis wele later B amended by Jefferson, who proposed B to strike four cuius upon the basis of B the Bpanlsh milled dollar- a gold piece m of the value Of 110, a dollar III silver, H a tenth of a dollar In stiver and a B hundredth of a dollar in copper. |