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Gene 1474-1839
Sir,
your letter asthe Little int her
been duly recind, cened her bualted
nu te grew the
your must required in my annual
upnt
white dis which you ask for have
been reduced, need mife la preach
withut delay. I alphand to
me that ne tum should lu lost
in gitting mady In the comege
of half dillers. Dines can half
dinus crust two slowly , need help
your agact of crinage too low
Spear you to frual my m
facts to cun. Gairs, and to inform
him that the dis for his mudal
luling the the governm, and an the
cially cutrulted to the helping of this
mint, as are all the the due fin
hand under the same circuestances
The cost 7 an additional qid
mudal would lh about $ 180 ; but
Geur Gains is probably not aware that
you
have
no
field,
in
your
Meint,
kith
which such a mudal could be struck.
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This item is a letter from Robert M. Patterson, Director of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, to David Bradford, director of the U.S. Mint in New Orleans, which states that the dies Bradford requested for half-dollars, dimes, and half-dimes had been ordered.
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