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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 4949316, member: 74863&quot;]Neither. Federal came later and confederate is the Civil War period. All of the coin dealers I felt with called the colonial coinage but there are number of people that don&#039;t like that. </p><p><br /></p><p>According to the Redbook pre-federal issues started with the Spanish American coinage of the New World. The first dates that appeared on them were 1556. The section on Massachusetts gives an interesting history of the beginning of money in America.</p><p><br /></p><p>A number of the colonies mentioned their own coins from dies that they made. According to the Redbook colonial issues ended in 1767. In 1783 postcolonial issues consisting of speculative&nbsp; issues, tokens and patterns were minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a large number of postcolonial issues that you should refer to your red book to learn more but the postcolonial issues wete last dated 1795. Then the federal issues started with Continental currency dated 1776. There were large numbers of contract issues and patterns that fall into this category.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then on April 2, 1792 the half cent was authorized. Numerous acts changed the weight with the first half Cent being&nbsp; minted in 1793. Large Cents we&#039;re also minted in 1793. All of these coins were minted in Philadelphia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just tells me that in early America coins were hard to get and bartering was a common practice. It also makes it difficult to pin down what type of issue it was, meaning pre-colonial, colonial or postcolonial. Coins from other countries circulated freely in the colonies. Dates of mintage and the governmental acts authorizing the mintage further complicate the dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>This time period is open to interpretation and it&#039;s quite interesting. It is certainly an area that we could all you use more knowledge of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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