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" It is now nearly thirty years since our new monies of account, our coins, and our mint, have been established. The dollar, under its new stamp, has preserved its name and circulation. The cent has become tolerably familiarized to the tongue, wherever... "
An inquiry into the principles involved in the decimalization of the weights ... - Page 78
by Robert Slater - 1855
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Report Upon Weights and Measures, Issues 1-7

United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...tenth part a dedme, and its hundredth a centime. It is now nearly thirty years since our new moneys of account, our coins, and our mint, have been established....with an explanatory definition to inform the reader, that tl>ey are ten cent pieces ; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by...
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The North American Review, Volume 14

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...tenth part a dedntf, and its hundredth a centime. It is now nearly thirty years since our new monies of account, our coins, and our mint, have been established....with an explanatory definition to inform the reader, that they are ten cent pieces ; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 17-18

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1852 - 860 pages
...established. The dollar and the cent have become familiarised to the tongue, but the dime and the mill are so utterly unknown, that now, when the recent coinage of dimes is alluded to, it is always necessary to inform the reader that they are tcnoent pieces. Ask a tradesman in any of...
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The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts: Espeically with ...

John Bowring - Decimal system - 1854 - 304 pages
...under its new stamp, has preserved its name and circulation. The cent has become tolerably familiarised to the tongue, wherever it has been made, by circulation,...with an explanatory definition, to inform the reader that they are ten-cent pieces; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by the...
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The Metric System, Considered with Reference to Its Introduction Into the ...

Charles Davies - Science - 1871 - 394 pages
...tenth part a decline, and its hundredth a centime.. It is now nearly thirty years since our new moneys of account, our coins, and our mint, have been established....with an explanatory definition to inform the reader, that they are ten-cent pieces; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by the...
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Draft Outlines of an International Code, Book 1

David Dudley Field - International law - 1872 - 522 pages
...it has been made by circulation familiar to the hand. But the dime having been seldom, and the mill never, presented in their material images to the people,...public journals, if their name is mentioned, it is with an explanatory definition to inform the reader that they are ten cent pieces ; and some of them,...
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School Science, Volume 1

Mathematics - 1901 - 594 pages
...•Communlcat'oDs for the Department of Metrology should be sent to Rufui P. Williams. Cambridge. Mass. * * * "now, when the recent coinage of dimes is alluded...with an explanatory definition to inform the reader that they are ten-cent pieces ; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by...
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The Metric System: Hearings Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Metric system - 1907 - 290 pages
...State, in his celebrated report on weights and measures, also dated in 182i, wrote as follows: * * * Now, when the recent coinage of dimes is alluded to...with an explanatory definition to inform the reader that they are 10-cent pieces ; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by the...
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The North American Review, Volume 14

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 502 pages
...tenth part a decime, and its hundredth a centime. It is now nearly thirty years since our new monies of account, our coins, and our mint, have been established....with an explanatory definition to inform the reader,, that they are ten cent pieces ; and some of them which have found their way over the mountains, by...
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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 22

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1853 - 616 pages
...established. The dollar and the cent have become familiarised to the tongue ; but the dime and the mille are so utterly unknown, that now, when the recent coinage of dimes is alluded to, it is always necessary to inform the reader that they are lo-cent pieces. Ask a tradesman in any of...
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