Money of Pre-Federal America
May 4, 1991
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Proceedings of the Coinage of the Americas Conference
Contents
Preface
Contributors
Introduction
Making Money in Early Massachusetts
The Rocker Press
The Evidence of the Coins
The New Yorke in America Token
Table 1 THE NEW YORKE TOKEN
The Monetary Situation in Seventeenth Century New York City
Conclusion
Fabrications
Provenance 74
Unusual Printing Features on Early American Paper Money
Denominational Insignia
Drawn and Quartered
Mirror Image Errors
Backward S
Upside Down
Spellbound
A Spelling Teaser
Eccentricities
Redating
Ornamentation
The Not So Secret Marks
Seeing Red
Nature Printing
The Printer's Puzzle
Pennsylvania's Currency Signers 1723-1785
1723-49
1755-60
1764-73
1775-85
Weight Analysis of Abel Buell's Connecticut Coppers
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Ephraim Brasher's 1786 Lima Style Doubloon
Introduction
Review of the Literature
Types and Die Characteristics
Metrology and Elemental Analysis
The E.B Counterstamp
Conclusion
American Indian Peace Medals of the Colonial Period
Appendix 1: A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Massachusetts Silver at the American Numismatic Society
Sidney P. Noe and the ANS Collection of Massachusetts Silver
New England Coinage
Willow Tree Coinage
Oak Tree Coinage
Pine Tree Coinage
Appendix 2: American Indian Peace Medals of the Colonial Period In the Collection of the American Numismatic Society
Medals in the Name of French Kings
Medals in the Name of English Monarchs
Medals of the United States of America, Pre-1800
Medals Previously Classed as Indian Peace Medals for Which Evidence of Such Use is Lacking or Inconclusive