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American Colonial Coinage
When the first Europeans began to settle in America during the 1500s, there was little use for coins. Where would you spend them in a complete wilderness?
This page used to contain pictures of early colonial coinage but I moved the images to a separate page. They are still available and the links are in the text.
A system born of necessity ...
The Colonial Coinage of Spanish America
An introduction by Daniel Frank Sedwick
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Spanish colonial coinage in the English colonies
The importance of Spanish money in the colonies cannot be overstated. It has been estimated that half of the coins in colonial America were Spanish reales.
Colonial Coinage. Commodus to Gallienus; also quasi-autonomous, Caracalla to Gallienus. Inscr., COL AVG TROAD; COL TROA; COL ALEXAND AVG. Types: Chiefly relating to Apollo Smintheus, whose temple lay south of Alexandreia Troas.
Colonial coinage (Rec. gén., p. 196 f.; cf. p. 179). In B.C. 70 Sinope was taken by Lucullus, and in B.C. 45 it was made a colonia by Caesar. The earliest coins are without the Imperial head: obv. Head of Ceres, rev.
The appearance of the edge of the coin makes me consider if it could have been struck on a flattened tetradrachm from the last period of colonial coinage at Alexandria about 50 years earlier.
The year 1870 saw the introduction of the first regular colonial coinage. Copper one, half, and quarter-cents were struck and in 1892 the first silver appeared valued at fifty, twenty-five and ten cents. These denominations are still in current use.
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Professional numismatists specializing in the colonial coinage of Spanish America, shipwreck coins & artifacts of all nations.
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On this page you will find an ever growing catalog of British and European Colonial Coinage and brief information pertaining to each coin, country, or person depicted on the coin if applicable.
- British and European (Colonial) ...
A gap of just over twenty years without any significant additional colonial coinage production ended in 1760 with the Voce Populi coinage. The 1766 Pitt tokens and 1767 French Colony pieces followed shortly thereafter.
Also included are Hawaiian and Colonial coinage. The version with values contains current coin values, provided by Coin World, a recognized leader in numismatics. It is fully featured coin inventory software.
of ANDA to autograph the article he wrote for the current CAB magazine (July 2010 issue) about his experiences in the Victoria Police with stories about counterfeit banknotes. And on a roll we bought a copy of Andrew Crellin's "The Colonial Coinage ...
After being "off the market" for 25 years, we expect that specialists in the field of colonial coinage and Washingtonia alike will greet this lovely rarity with a round of enthusiastic bidding activity.
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