David Finkelstein wrote:
The below link is to an article that I coauthored with Joel
J. Orosz and Leonard Augsburger (coauthors of “The Secret History of the First
U. S. Mint” and “1792: Birth of a Nation’s Coinage”). The article is titled “Who Deposited The Silver
For The 1794 Dollars?”. A modified
version of this article appears in the September 2017 edition of The Numismatist titled, “The Director’s
Deposits.”
We now know that 1) Director of the Mint David Rittenhouse
deposited the silver for the 1794 Dollars, 2) David Rittenhouse received 1,758
1794 Dollars on October 15, 1794, and 3) a 1794 Dollar was forwarded to
President George Washington from Secretary of State Edmund Randolph (via David
Rittenhouse) on October 16, 1794.
David
