Aprašymas
Coin and Currency Collections
in the Department of Special Collections
University of Notre Dame Libraries
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Coins of Colonial and Early America
A catalog and historical essay on the coins of colonial and early America from wampum and Massachusetts silver through the provisional half disme of 1792. The catalog contains over 275 coins divided by coin types. Each section contains an introductory essay reflecting recent scholarship followed by full color high-quality jpeg images and descriptions for each coin. A few highlights include: a group of Spanish American gold ingots from 1659, a well preserved Noe 1 Oak Tree shilling, a Higley copper, a Continental "dollar", a 1784 imitation British halfpenny and a 1792 half disme.
Colonial Currency
A catalog featuring hundreds of examples of colonial paper currency with supplementary sections on colonial lottery tickets and fiscal documents. Currency examples range from the New York issue of May 31, 1709 to the fractional currency privately emitted in the 1790's during the copper panic. Emissions are listed under the colony of issue followed by Continental Congress issues. There are a number of notes printed by Benjamin Franklin and several Massachusetts examples by Paul Revere. The site also includes explanatory essays on such topics as the first paper currency emission in the colonies, the relative value of local money in the colonies and land bank notes. The lottery section contains a ticket from the first government sponsored lottery in the colonies, the Massachusetts 1744-45 lottery.
Washington Tokens
This catalog includes descriptions and images of about one hundred coins, tokens and medals depicting George Washington dating from 1783 to the Inauguration Centennial medals of 1889. The items are organized chronologically and a full site map is available as well as a listing by Baker number. A few of the highlights in the collection are: an example of the earliest Washington token the 1783 Georgius Triumpho copper, a Born Virginia token, an example of a Washington memorial funeral token created by Jacob Perkins, a Washington Monument token of 1848 and one of a very few surviving examples of the NO GOOD token. Most of the items on exhibit were part of an anonymous donation to Notre Dame consisting of 1100 tokens and medals covering the Nineteenth century.
Future Exhibits
We are working on our collections of Confederate Currency and our Nineteenth Century American token collection. To view several hundred of our unlinked token images click on our Index of Tokens. To see preliminary scans of some CSA notes click on CSA Index. To see preliminary scans (large TIFF files) of some of our Medieval Coins click on Medieval Coins Index. Please bookmark our site and visit often. Feel free to link this page or any of our pages to your own site.
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INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
Title Page
Introduction
Viewing Tips
Die Charts
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
Studies on John Hull and the Massachusetts 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
Quick Jump
Introductory Material
Money Substitutes
Produced by 1750
Imports to 1750
Spanish Circulation
Dutch Circulation
British Circulation
French Issues
Late Colonial
Revolutionary War
1783 Americans
Confed. Era Coppers
Confed. Patterns/Experimentals
Republic/State Coppers
Fed. Contract Coppers
Imitation British Coppers
West Indies
Post Confed. Local
Post Confed. Imports
Washington Tokens
US Mint Provisional Issues
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 (ugly head) Copper 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
