The Early Coins of America and the Laws Governing Their Issue Comprising also Descriptions of the Washington Pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the first patterns of the United States mint

Crosby, Sylvester Sage (Rare Coin Book)

Edité par Published by the author, Boston, 1875

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A very handsome folio edition of this rare and unusual coin book. With 10 full-page heliotype plates with tissue guards of American Coins; and 2 folding facsimile manuscript plates protected by tissue guards. With numerous drawings through the 381 pages, including the index and the list of subscribers (3 pages) at the end. With an introduction by Crosby and 21 sections, focusing on numerous states and their coinage, beginning with Sommer Islands of Bermuda (Originally claimed by the Virginia Company in their grant until sold in 1612); and including Virginia, Massachusetts (silver currency, nearly 100 pages); Maryland, Canada, Pennysylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts(copper currency, 50 pages); New Jersey, New York, the Fugios, and South Carolina. Very clean and tight thoughout with some scattered foxing to some of the tissue guards. With a 1/2" separation at the top of the front hinge. Striking red white and blue marbeled endpapers and paste-downs. Bound in contemporary leather spine with leather tips; with gilt rules and bright gilt lettering on the spine. Wear to the leather along the spine edges and some scuffing to leather tips on the rare boards. The boards are a heavy pebbled brown cloth. A very good plus copy of this significant coin book. Sylvester Sage Crosby published only two major numismatic works during his lifetime, but both were of extraordinary importance. The first, a die study of the cents of 1793, published in April 1869, was the first die study ever performed; he expanded this study into a fuller treatment of the cents and half cents of 1793 in a monograph published in 1897. Crosbys second major numismatic work was a study of the pre-federal coin issues in what is now the United States, published from 1873 through 1875, which remains an essential source today. Crosby admitted in his introduction to the Early Coins of America that several pieces in his work had never circulated in the United States, but he included them because they had been regularly collected as part of the United States series. An example would be the British eighteenth century "Conder tokens," such as the one issued for the Franklin Press in London. From the very beginning the numismatic history of the United States was distinct from its monetary history. Crosby did not describe what circulated and what did not in the thirteen colonies and the early United States, but rather recorded the narrative that coin collectors constructed to articulate the story of the American project. This narrative privileged copper coins that resembled British halfpence, and omitted other widely circulated coins from the canon, such as Spanish American dollars, Brazilian joes, or Spanish pistareens. In including the coins that resembled most closely those of Britain, Crosbys account was in more ways than one the story of "New England." Since coin collecting in the South was nipped in the bud by the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, the narrative was constructed from the northern point of view. Some coinage that circulated widely in the southern United States in the colonial and early federal period, such as cut Spanish pistareens, has only begun to be adopted into the canon in recent years. Crosby admitted in his introduction to the Early Coins of America that several pieces in his work had never circulated in the United States, but he included them because they had been regularly collected as part of the United States series. An example would be the British eighteenth century "Conder tokens," such as the one issued for the Franklin Press in London. From the very beginning the numismatic history of the United States was distinct from its monetary history. Crosby did not describe what circulated and what did not in the thirteen colonies and the early United States, but rather recorded the narrative that coin collectors constructed to articulate the story of the American project. This narrative privileged copper coins that resemble.

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• Titre: The Early Coins of America and the Laws Governing Their Issue Comprising also Descriptions of the Washington Pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the first patterns of the United States mint
• Éditeur: Published by the author, Boston
• Date de parution: 1875
• Reliure: Hardcover
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