#john cartwright

First minted coinage of a free America, the 1792 Half Disme with Goddess Liberty. If wikipedia can be relied on, "Disme" was pronounced "deem".

"Our revolution commenced on more favorable ground. it presented us an Album on which we were free to write what we pleased. we had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up Royal parchments, or to investigate the laws & institutions of a semi-barbarous ancestry. we appealed to those of nature, and found them engraved in our hearts."

-Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

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"The 1792 Half Disme is a historic numismatic rarity that ushered in the production of coinage for the United States of America. Alexander Hamilton was ordered by Congress, on April 15, 1790, to establish a Mint for our new country. Just over a year later, the Morris Bill was drafted, detailing the framework of the American coinage system.

By April, 1792, the Mint Act was passed; and, by order of George Washington, the first coin was set to be minted. The Half Disme was conceptualized by David Rittenhouse who went on to become the very first Mint Director.

Thomas Jefferson, himself, delivered the silver to the manufacturer, John Harper, who was a toolmaker by trade. As Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson was busily supervising the whole mint project. Three months later, Harper presented Jefferson with 1,500 coins given the name Half Dismes, per the Mint Act.

The Half Dismes were struck using dies created by the engraver, Robert Birch. The Morris Bill required that the Half Dismes contain 0.8924 silver along with other metals for a total weight of 20.8 grams and a diameter of 17.5 millimeters. On November 6, 1792, these coins were put into circulation by the United States Mint as the first legal tender of our nation.

The obverse of the coin displays a depiction of Liberty facing to the left, with the date below the bust, and the phrase "LIB PAR OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY" in the legend. The reverse shows an Eagle, also facing to the left, with "HALF DISME" beneath it and the legend displaying "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." The mintage for the 1792 Half Disme was 1,500. Unfortunately, approximately just 275 are estimated to have survived in all grades with about 15% of those in mint state."

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Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon helmet 6th-7th C. CE

"I was glad to find in your book a formal contradiction, at length, of the Judiciary usurpation of legislative powers; for such the judges have usurped in their repeated decisions that Christianity is a part of the Common law. the proof of the contrary which you have adduced is incontrovertible, to wit, that the Common law existed, while the Anglo-Saxons were yet Pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced, or knew that such a character had ever existed. But it may amuse you to shew when, and by what means they stole this law in upon us." -From Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824