Word: mintings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gold Piece. Ouimet's drive was retrieved by one of the more flatteringly distant caddies, who pounced on the ball and brought it back for the traditional reward: a gold sovereign (which in recent years has been specially struck by the Royal Mint for the R. & A.). Instead of the sovereign, Ouimet gave the caddy an old $5 gold piece...
Once a year, as directed by law, Harry Truman sends a committee of private citizens off to Philadelphia to visit the U.S. Mint to make sure it isn't cheating on the metal content of U.S. coins. Before the group's departure, he gravely signs ornate commissions for each. Afterward, he receives a solemn report which notes that the mint is making no wooden nickels, no nickel-plated dimes...
...migratory wild fowl, but promulgate rules concerning transportation and sale of their drumsticks, wings and necks (in case a wily scofflaw dissected them). He also shucked off responsibility for toll-fixing on roads and trails in Alaska. This was just a beginning; abolishing obsolescent chores such as the mint commissions is still to come. Eventually he hopes to confine presidential decisions and paper work (he signs from 600 to 800 papers a day) to matters more directly concerning the Atomic...
...committee has been going to the mint yearly since 1793 after President George Washington approved legislation calling for an annual "Trial of the Coins." Money from the mints at Denver and San Francisco is included in the test. Coins minted at Denver are stamped with an initial D, from San Francisco with an S. Except for wartime 5? pieces which contained no nickel and bear the initial P, coin from the Philadelphia mint is unmarked. In 158 years, the committee, usually from twelve to 14 people, has never found a defective coin...
...loose ends after the war, he trekked west to San Francisco and took a job as watchman at the U.S. mint. On the side, he read Gibbon and Pope, minted an acrid style of his own. In 1867, he managed to get a grisly romantic poem published in the Californian, and from then on journalism, more accurately, invective journalism, was his business...