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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 43, October 21, 2001, Article 6 1793 JEFFERSON LETTER TO COINER VOIGT Another historic letter is being offered for sale by document dealer Robert F. Batchelder of West Chester, PA. As described in an article by William T. Gibbs in the October 29, 2001 issue of Coin World (p22), the January 29th, 1793 letter was written in Philadelphia by the then-Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson on behalf of President Washington. Written to Henry Voigt, the one-page letter conveys Voigt's commission as the first Chief Coiner of the Mint of the United States. Voigt served as the mint's Chief Coiner until his death in February 1814.

Wayne Homren, Editor

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