Julia Casey submitted these additional notes on early references to Continental Dollars. Thanks! -Editor

He owns it but has not found it anywhere. It is probably just a sample stamp that has never been minted because it is made of tin, but for those who love coins it will be all the more in the middle of the main page in three lines WE ARE ONE in a circular line between this and another circular line which throws short rays from between stands around CONGRESS AMERICAN This all is made of a chain consisting of 13 links on each of which one runs the name of a province of the American Free State. The inscription on the back is called CONTINENTAL CURRENCY The sun shines on a sundial by the sun, FUGIO stands on the sundial MIND YOUR BUSINESS completely unnoticed between the inscription 1776

The article is a review of a numismatic book published in 1811 which was meant as a general numismatic reference for collectors, numismatists and businessmen. While the reviewer attests it great overall completeness and thus usefulness, he corrects or augments some of the entries. One of these is the section on Dollar, where he adds:

On the occasion of the word Dollar p. 128 sq., the reviewer would only like to mention a third type of dollar which he personally owns and has not seen to be catalogued anywhere yet. Most likely it is just a pattern which has never been coined, because it is made of tin, but numismatists will therefore find it even more interesting.

He then continues with a detailed description of what indeed is a Continental dollar.

The reviewer signs with Wa.. I did not find any clues who this might have been, as there generally was no list of contributors to this type of literature journals. By the many numismatic details that the reviewer provides, and the little I know about the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, I would assume that he was a professor, most likely of the Jena university, well versed in general numismatics.

Thanks, Julia. And Bless all those involved with digitizing books and periodicals all around the world. This opens many new doors for researchers, and new discoveries like these are coming at a faster pace. -Editor