U.S Colonial Coins - Show yours

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  1. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    Hey everyone ! :)
    I live in New England and so I love U.S Colonial Coins (Coppers) Like CT coppers, New Jersey ,MA Coppers etc. ) .
    If you have one or more please post them . I'll go first with MY 1787 CT. Copper found in 2004 .
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  3. Seascape

    Seascape U.S. & World Collector

    I have a couple. Here is one. These are expensive little suckers with tons of die varieties. In my opinion they require alot of research and understanding. If not you could easily over pay. s-l400-29.jpg Internet_20210627_070016_2.jpeg
     
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    Seascape U.S. & World Collector

  5. ldhair

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  6. CoinJockey73

    CoinJockey73 Well-Known Member

    Show off ;). Got any from NY?
     
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  7. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    A NY token that's barely Identifiable , ;)
     
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  8. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    It was not an official New York State coinage, but the Nova Eborac copper was a proposed coinage.

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    Machin's Mills was a private minter that was located in Newburgh, New York. They made genuine, authorized coins and counterfeits. This is a Vermont copper, but it was struck at Machin's Mills.

    The reverse is intentionally weak. It was used for some of their counterfeits. The idea was to make the piece look "worn" so that people would accept it. If plenty of other people had accepted it, then it must be good ... right? This came from the Eric P. Newman collection.

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    I have many more pre-federal coins, but this is a start.
     
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  9. scottishmoney

    scottishmoney Buh bye

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    The first colonial coin I purchased when I was in my early teens, paid way too much for it.
     
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  10. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here is "cousin" of the Hibernia coinage, a Rosa Americana half penny. These coins were made with a strange alloy called bath metal. The new Red Book says that is an incorrect term. At any rate it was made of copper, zinc and a trace of silver. The coins were not pleasant to the touch. They were rough, and the American colonists rejected them.

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  11. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here is 1723 Hibernia farthing.

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    And the half penny

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    There coins were made for Ireland, not America.
     
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  12. SensibleSal66

    SensibleSal66 U.S Casual Collector / Error Collector

    Still found in America ( Hibernia) . My friend found here in Connecticut while Metal detecting .
     
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  13. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Just about anything that circulated in Europe made its way here, more or less.
     
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  15. Chris B

    Chris B Supporter! Supporter

    I have a few modest ones.

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  16. Larry49

    Larry49 Active Member

    Philadelphia coin dealer William Idler did a copy of a Maryland piece and made it into a store card. The Maryland originals are quite expensive, but this is a nice placeholder in my Colonial/Pre-Federal collection. Recently purchased in a Stack'sBowers sale. Idler Baltimore a.jpg Idler Baltimore b.jpg
     
  17. Southernman189

    Southernman189 Well-Known Member

    I have a few pretty rough U.S. Colonials (sorry my camera skills and equipment doesn't match most of yours) 1788 Connecticut and a 1788 Massachusetts are a few of mine.
     

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  18. Mr.Q

    Mr.Q Well-Known Member

    My wife gave me allowance today, it's a 2020-D Zincoln, does that count...
     
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  19. Browns Fan

    Browns Fan Active Member

    How did the TPG grade and label this one, if you don't mind saying?
     
  20. Neal

    Neal Well-Known Member

    My rough and worn examples are what I can afford, but I really like them for their history. Even the wear means they were used by real people in early America, and perhaps for years into the 1800s. I wish there were a way to know what all they had bought and who had received them in change. Although called colonial, of course the 1787 pieces (Connecticut and New Jersey) were made after independence, while the Woods token and the Pennsylvania 30 shillings were actually made during the colonial period and in the name of the King.
    1722 Woods Hibernia Halfpenny bought 3-10-13.jpg 1722 Woods Hibernia Halfpenny rev bought 3-10-13.jpg 1787 Connecticut Copper bgt 10-2012.JPG 1787 Connecticut Copper bgt 10-2012 rev.JPG 1787 New Jersey Outlined shield (4).JPG 1787 New Jersey Outlined shield (3).JPG Colonial Pennsylvania 30 shillings obv (1).JPG Colonial Pennsylvania 30 shillings rev (best image).JPG
     
  21. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    Here is my representative Lord Baltimore, Maryland coin, a six pence. Yes, these pieces are very scarce and expensive. The copper piece that Idler copied is especially tough.

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