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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 670828, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Plus ca change, plus c&#039;est le meme chose.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Whitman just came out with a new book on Colonial coins that is destined to be the new standard.&nbsp; Before this, the standard was <i>The Early Coins of America</i> by Sylvester S. Crosby, <b>published in 1875 </b>and reprinted often.&nbsp; (Mine is from Quaterman 1983.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1840s, gentlemen in Boston discovered how cheap Large Cents and Half Cents were to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>During the 1790s, when merchant tokens circulated widely in England, one of the issuers and cataloguers was a draper named James Conder.&nbsp; From&nbsp; his catalog, we in America still call them &quot;Conder tokens.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is outside my areas, but for US Large Cents, the standard works have all been modernized.&nbsp; Still, among them known to true collectors is one originally printed on <b>hand-engraved copper plates.</b>&nbsp; It has been reprinted and republished often.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the reasons that there are three kinds of 1804 Dollars is that collectors in the 1850s heard that such things existed, and had the Mint make them more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Spink the UK coin dealer sets 1770-1772 as the origin of its numismatic trade, apart from money-lending and money-changing.&nbsp; Seaby (now bought by Spink) also dates to about the same time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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