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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 30201, member: 57463&quot;]Thanks for the thumbnail history.&nbsp; I find that all very interesting.&nbsp; The colonial era is compelling for its lessons. </p><p><br /></p><p>What would have happened to the Dutch West India Company&#039;s &quot;coins&quot; if the Netherlands had been finally re-taken by the Spanish crown or their Austrian cousins?&nbsp; To me, the coins of the company would be coins by their <b>use, material substance, method of manufacture, and relative size and shape.&nbsp; </b> </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking in The Red Book, you find The Copper Company of Upper Canada, the Higley (Granby) Coppers, the gold of Templeton Reid, and many others.&nbsp; The editors call some &quot;tokens&quot; and others not.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In our time, Walt Disney Corporation issues its own money for its &quot;territories.&quot;&nbsp; The corporation certainly is not a &quot;government.&quot;&nbsp; Although they have many of the attributes of a government -- control of land; security forces; money -- they do not call themselves a government.&nbsp; Their coins are still coins; their paper is still money.&nbsp; I am not sure that incorporation under the laws of this or that state include the right to create your own money as a specific provision.</p><p><br /></p><p>I refered to the colonial situation for two reasons.&nbsp; Clearly, as you note, many of these corporations did, indeed, have a grant to create coinage.&nbsp; Not all who struck coins had that grant.&nbsp; Massachusetts Bay Colony stands out for striking its own coins as a sign of their independence. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, we have this case where one corporation (Massachusetts) uses coinage to announce its status as an independent government and we have another (Walt Disney) that makes no such representations.&nbsp; However, in both cases, their coins are still coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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