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SCI LIBRARY

The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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MONEY / MINTING OF COINAGE



I should approve of your employing the Mint on small silver coins, rather than on dollars and gold coins, as far as the consent of those who employ it can be-obtained. It would be much more valuable to the public to be supplied with abundance of dimes and half dimes, which would stay among us, than with dollars and eagles which leave us immediately.

to Robert Patterson, 29 March 1807