All Guide To Colonial Values Articles

As few as a dozen New York Theater tokens were struck in proof. Skidmore created these “on speculation” and had hoped to obtain a contract from a prosperous New York business to design and strike a series or quantity of tokens for them.

Talbot, Allum, and Lee commissioned Peter Kempson, who had a mining facility in Birmingham, England to strike two tons of copper tokens for their firm. They had weight and size similar to the British Half Penny to make them acceptable to merchants and customers alike.

Standish Barry was a silversmith from Baltimore, Maryland, whose 3 Pence Silver coins are generally collected with US colonial coins. These coins are shrouded in mystery. Who is depicted on their obverse?

Mark Newby was a Quaker, from Dublin, Ireland. He came to America in 1681 and settled in Camden, New Jersey. He brought to the New World a large cache of copper coins that have become known as St. Patrick coppers.

The 1792 United States Pattern coinage is probably the most important pattern coin as they were the precursors to the regular coinage that was to follow in the years to come. These coins were the basis for the United States monetary system, during its infancy, which became the world standard for coinage.

William Wood was the owner of numerous copper and tin mines in Great Britain. He sought and obtained a patent and then permission to strike coinage for use in the British colonies in America and also for use in Ireland.

The medal commemorated the victory of Admiral Lord Richard Howe over American colonists in Rhode Island. During the summer of 1778, the American Major General John Sullivan commanded 10,000 Continental troops and tried to wrest Newport, Rhode Island, from British control.

In order to pay its troops for the costs of the French and Indian Wars, Parliament imposed stamp tariffs on the colonies on everything they bought from the mother country.

There are four major designs for the Nova Eborac coppers. All of these coins share an obverse portrait of a mailed bust wearing a laurel wreath on his head.