1810 newspaper NUMISMATIC HISTORY Report of the US MINT Silver GOLD Copper Coins

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1810 newspaper with early US NUMISMATIC HISTORY - Report of the US MINT detailing the numbers of Silver GOLD Copper Coins produced in 1809
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inv # 1V-209
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
NY Spectator
dated Jan 17, 1810.
This newspaper contains an inside page detailed report on the
production by the US Mint in 1809
. The report is signed in type by
Robert Patterson, Director of the US Mint
.
The Director of the United States Mint is the head of the
United States Mint
. The office of Director has existed since the creation of the Mint by the
Coinage Act of 1792
. Initially appointed serving at the pleasure of the
President of the United States
, the
Coinage Act of 1873
specified a five-year term for Directors.
Robert Patterson (May 20, 1743 – July 22, 1824) was an
American
educator and director of the
United States Mint
. He was born on a lease-held farm near
Hillsborough
, County Down,
Ireland
, emigrated to the United States in 1768, and lived for a time in
Philadelphia
.
In 1774, he became principal of an academy in
Wilmington, Delaware
. A
Patriot
in the
American Revolution
, after the
battles of Lexington and Concord
he began instructing his students in military matters and served as
adjutant
in a local company of the
Delaware militia
. When classes were suspended because of the
War of Independence
, he returned to
Greenwich Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey
, where he had earlier lived, and hastily received enough training to serve as an assistant surgeon in a
New Jersey militia
company. Militia service was not a full-time activity, but he frequently served in the field for nearly three years, and was appointed a
brigade major
.
From 1779 to 1814, he was professor of mathematics in the
University of Pennsylvania
, being also serving as vice provost from 1810 to 1813. In 1805, without solicitation,
President Jefferson
appointed him director of the mint, which position he held until a short time before his death. Always actively interested in the
American Philosophical Society
, he was its president from 1819 until his death. He published
The Newtonian System
(1808) and edited various works on mathematics and
physics
. His son,
Robert M. Patterson
, followed in his footsteps, also becoming director of the mint and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.
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