Mint Director Nellie Tayloe Ross (left) looks on as Ralph Smith of the Bureau of Standards checks a coin during the 1942 United States Assay Commission meeting. Vernon Brown, also a member like Smith and curator of the Chase Manhattan Money Museum, is at right.
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