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Must What 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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