| Art - 1803 - 748 pages
...to afcertain whether this lols was occaiioned by any defect, either in the qiulity of the ttandard gold, 01 in the figure or impreflion of the coins....gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the procel's of coining, luffers the moft by wear, under the various circvimftances of fncYion to which... | |
| 1803 - 752 pages
...which was accordingly done. " Two queftions were to be principally decided, ift. Whether very foft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the procefs of coining, (offers the inoft by wear, under the various circumiiances of friction to which coin is fubjcAcd in... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 752 pages
...accordingly dont. '« Two quefticns were to bo principally decided, lit. Whether very (oft ami duilile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the procefs of coining, fuiTers the moft by wear, under the various circumftances of friciicn to which coin is fubjetled in... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1804 - 620 pages
...loss which it appeared to have sustained by wear within certain periods. • ' 1st. Whether very soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the process of coining, suffers the most by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which... | |
| Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1819 - 538 pages
...following questions were principally recommended to their consideration : .• ! " 1st. Whether very soft and ductile Gold, or Gold made as hard as is compatible with the process of coining, suffers the most by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which... | |
| James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1828 - 232 pages
...scientific gentlemen (Mr. Henry Cavendish and Mr. Hatchett) to answer such questions as, whether very soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the process of coining, suffers the most by wear; and whether coin, with a flat, smooth, and broad surface,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...following questions were principally recommended to their consideration : — ' 1st. Whether very*soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the process of coining, suffers the most by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which... | |
| Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1840 - 542 pages
...following questions were principally recommended to their consideration : " 1st. Whether very soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the process of coining, suffers the most by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1861 - 432 pages
...the inquiry from 1798 to 1801. The first problem undertaken for solution was this — Does very soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the processes of coining, suffer the moet by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which... | |
| American periodicals - 1861 - 850 pages
...the inquiry from 1798 to 1801. The first problem undertaken for solution was this : Docs very soft and ductile gold, or gold made as hard as is compatible with the processes of coining, suffer the most by wear, under the various circumstances of friction to which... | |
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