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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1089109, member: 17919&quot;]I am, too, to tell you the truth. One of the reasons, I suspect, is that they are not listed in the Redbook, except for some copycat items like the Machin&#039;s Mills pieces. Another reason is that the British silver and gold pieces really did not circulate in the colonies; the colonists seemed to be more familiar with the Spanish Empire pieces, and that&#039;s one reason why the Spanish Milled Dollar (8 reales) became the basis for the US Dollar. So even though I have a 1774 gold guinea, with a picture of King George III on it, it would be tough to sell it to an American as an &quot;American&quot; piece, even though the coin could have been used by the king to pay his Hessian mercenaries who were hired to fight the colonists.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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