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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 33, August 12, 2001, Article 6

AUGUST COLONIAL NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED 

   Phil Mossman writes: "Number #117 of The Colonial Newsletter, 
   August 2001, has been sent to subscribers.  This issue features 
   an article by Brian Danforth in his continuing research regarding 
   the circulation of William Wood's Hibernia coppers both in 
   Ireland and the American colonies.  Here he reexamines the 
   historical record and challenges some of the popular numismatic 
   tradition that has evolved concerning these coinages.  In 
   summary, they circulated widely in Ireland and were not 
   rejected as Dean Swift's tirades against them would have us 
   believe.  Many were shipped to America in the mid-1730s but 
   only after they had been replaced by regal Tower Mint issues. 

   A find of coins from Upper New York State, recovered over 
   a period of years by a metal detectionist, is examined in detail 
   in an article contributed by John Lorenzo.  These coins date 
   from around the turn of the 19th century and are quite 
   representative of other similar finds of the period.  It is an 
   analysis of data from such finds as this that have enabled us to 
   develop a fair idea of the coins that circulated in pre-Federal 
   America. 

   David Gladfelter contributed an article featuring four engraved 
   plates from the Earl of Pembroke's collection which depicted 
   eleven early American coins.   "The illustrations of these eleven 
   pieces are, with the exception of John Evelyn's 1697 engraving 
   of a St. Patrick's farthing, the earliest of American coins 
   appearing in a numismatic publication." 

   And lastly, Editor Emeritus, James C. Spilman, updated readers 
   with a checklist of "Early American Counterfeit Halfpence 
   Believed Struck in America." 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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