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The E-Sylum: Volume 23, Number 30, July 26, 2020, Article 3

NEW BOOK: COLONIAL HISTORY IN YOUR HANDS

Author Peter Jones has published a new book on U.S. colonial coinage. Congratulations! See the web page and click the "See Inside" link for a preview, including an introduction by John Kraljevich and a thorough review of earlier classification schemes and a reasoned recommendation for a revision to how these issues have been organized in the past. -Editor

COLONIAL HISTORY IN YOUR HANDS book cover Colonial History in Your Hands
A Colonial Coin Collector's Collection
by Peter Jones

Genre: ANTIQUES And COLLECTIBLES
Subgenre: Coins, Currency & Medals
Language: English
Pages: 598
Format: Hardcover
Hardcover ISBN: 9781098317553
Price: $89 Net

Overview
Colonial History in Your Hands is about colonial American coins. A lifelong collector, Jones explores different classification systems of colonial coins, then gives the fascinating stories behind each coin with up to date scholarship on the current thoughts about each series.

The book is profusely illustrated with color photos, and includes full page pictures of almost 300 coins. The book is 8.5 by 11 hard back with 597 pages. Foreword by John Kraljevich.

Sections include: British royal authorized coins, French royal authorized coins, French Royal domestic export for the colonies, Locally made tokens and coins, Imported token coinage, State Coinage and imitation halfpence, Proposed and actual federal pieces, Optional colonial collectibles (Washingtonia, Condor Tokens, Commodity money, Common Foreign trade coins, little used pieces, and coins which should not be in the Red Book).

There is an extensive glossary which includes: numismatic terms, parts of a coins, English, French and Mexican metrology US GDP, population, and labor costs from 1790 to 2017 Colonial English, Spanish, French and Portuguese rulers, Historical metrology and fineness. Bibliography. Full page color illustrations of 27 foreign coins specified in the Journals of Continental Congress. 13 page index. If you have any interest in colonial American history, colonial American coins, or numismatics in general, this reference book is eminently readable and a must for your collection.

About the author
Peter Jones

Passionate collector, Dr. Peter Jones describes his fascination with colonial American coins. You can actually feel the connection to the past when you hold a colonial coin in your hand. A colonist once held the same coin!

This book tells the stories behind colonial coins. Peter trained at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, UK, doing a dual residency in Family Practice and Internal Medicine. In 1977 he immigrated with his wife, Ann, and their three daughters to rural Connecticut, where he practiced Internal Medicine for 39 years.

His avocations have included classical piano playing, flamenco and classical guitar playing, American financial history, magic, and numismatics. He has also authored Notable Notes, Dow Jones by Peter Jones, Commemorative Coin Tales, The First Medals of America, and with Cynthia Adams, Therapeutic Communication, now in its third edition.

For more information, or to order, see:
Colonial History in Your Hands (https://store.bookbaby.com/book/colonial-history-in-your-hands)

Apply code SIXTYOFF for $60 off. Net $89



Wayne Homren, Editor

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