A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment University of Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections

by Louis Jordan (e-mail) Images Coordinated by

James C. Spilman and the Colonial Newsletter Foundation

COLONIAL COINS - Section Contents

INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Viewing Tips

MONEY SUBSTITUTES

• Commodity Money
• Wampum

COINS PRODUCED IN THE COLONIES TO 1750

• Massachusetts Silver 1652-1682: General Introduction
• Chronological List of Documents on the Mint
  • NE coinage
  • Willow Tree coinage
  • Oak Tree Coinage
  • Pine Tree Coinage
• Small Change Coinage of ca. 1700 and Related Coinage Proposals
• Gloucester Courthouse Tokens, 1714-1715
• Higley Coppers 1737, 1739
• Proposals to Replace Paper Currency with Coinage, 1715-1748

COINS IMPORTED INTO OR RELATED TO THE COLONIES TO 1750

• Sommer Islands "Hogge Money" (1615-1616)
• Lord Baltimore Coinage (1658-1659)
• St. Patrick Coppers (1674-1675, to America in 1681)
• American Plantations Token (1688)
• New Yorke in America Token (between 1668 and 1673)
• Elephant Tokens 1694
• Rosa Americana Coppers 1722-1724
• Hibernia Coppers 1722-1724

SPANISH COINAGE CIRCULATING IN THE COLONIES

• Spanish Silver: General Introduction
  • Pre-Cobs (Charles and Johanna Silver 1536-1572)
  • Colonial Cobs 1572-1773
  • Milled Coinage 1732-1821
• Spanish Gold

DUTCH COINAGE CIRCULATING IN THE COLONIES

• Lion Dollar
• The Silver Rider and Rix Dollar
  • Brief Outline of Dutch History and
    the New Netherlands Colony

BRITISH COINAGE CIRCULATING IN THE COLONIES

• Seventeenth Century Patent Farthings and Trade Tokens
• Regal British Coppers
  • Copper Farthings
  • Copper Halfpence
  • Well Worn Coppers
• Regal Irish Coppers
• Counterfeit Coppers
• Methods of Casting Counterfeit Coppers
• British Silver

FRENCH ISSUES FOR NEW WORLD COLONIES

• French issues in Canada and Louisiana

LATE COLONIAL COPPERS

• Voce Populi Copper 1760
• William Pitt Token 1766
• Virginia Halfpenny 1773

REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA COINAGE

• Continental Currency "Dollar" 1776
• State Patterns for MA and NH 1776
• Rhode Island Ship Token 1779

THE AMERICAN COINS OF 1783

• John Chalmer's Coinage 1783
• Nova Constellatio Pattern Units 1783
  • The Morris Decimal Coinage Proposal
  • The Jefferson Decimal Coinage Proposal

CONFEDERATION ERA PRIVATE COPPERS 1785-1787

• Constellatio Nova Coppers 1783, 1785
• Bar Copper 1785
• Auctori Plebis Token 1787
• Immunis Columbia Copper 1787

CONFEDERATION PATTERNS AND EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES 1785-1787

• Inimica tyrannis Americana 1785
• Immune Columbia 1785
• Immunis Columbia / Shield 1785
• Immunis Columbia / Confederatio 1786
• Immunis Columbia / Eagle 1786
• Gen. Washington / Confederatio 1785
• Gen. Washington / Shield 1785
• Gen. Washington / Eagle 1786
• Non Vi Virtute Vici / Shield 1786
• Confederatio / Eagle 1786
• Confederatio / Eagle 1787

REPUBLIC and STATE COPPERS

• Vermont 1785-1788
• Connecticut 1785-1788
• New Jersey 1786-1790
• Massachusetts 1787-1788

FEDERAL CONTRACT COPPERS 1787

• Fugio Cents

NEW YORK PRIVATE ISSUES 1786-1787

• Non Vi Virtute Vici Copper 1786
• Excelsior Copper 1787
• Nova Eborac Copper 1787
• Brasher's Doubloons 1787
• Thomas Machin's Patterns 1787

IMITATION BRITISH COPPERS MADE IN NORTH AMERICA

• Imitation British Halfpence: General Introduction
• New York City Imitation British Halfpence
• Machin's Mills Imitation British Halfpence
• Unattributed Imitation British Halfpence
• James Falconer Atlee and Confederation Era Coppers
• Blacksmith Coppers

BRITISH WEST INDIES COPPERS

• Barbados 1788, 1792
• Bermuda 1793
• Bahamas 1806

POST CONFEDERATION LOCAL ISSUES

• Spanish Florida 1760, 1789
• Standish Barry, Baltimore Town Threepence 1790
• Albany Church Penny 1790

POST CONFEDERATION IMPORTS

• Kentucky Token 1792
• Talbot, Allum and Lee Cents 1794-5
• Franklin Press Token 1794
• Castorland demi écus "Half Dollar" 1796
• Myddelton Kentucky Pattern Halfpenny 1796
• Theatre at New York Token Penny (1797 or 98)
• North American Token (ca. 1817-1819)
• Mott Token (backdated)

WASHINGTON TOKENS

• Georgius Triumpho Copper 1783
• Washington the Great Token (ugly head) 1784
• Washington - Eagle Cents 1791
• American Armies Coppers 1792
• Roman Head Cent 1792
• Getz Half Dollar Pattern 1792
• North Wales Token (ca. 1792)
• Ship Halfpenny 1793
• Liverpool Halfpenny (1793)
• Liberty and Security Tokens 1795
• Grate Halfpenny 1795
• Repub. Ameri. Penny Token 1796, 1799
• Military Bust Tokens (ca. 1820)
• Double Head Tokens (ca. 1820)
• Draped Bust Tokens (ca. 1820)
• Unity States Cent (ca. 1820)
• Success Token

US MINT PROVISIONAL ISSUES OF 1792

• Silver Centered Cent
• Birch Cent
• Half Disme
• Disme
• Quarter Dollar

Introduction		Exhibit Start

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