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Colonial History in Your Hands: A Colonial Coin Colector's Collection
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Peter Jones

Colonial History in Your Hands

A Colonial Coin Colector's Collection

Peter Jones

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English
BookBaby
23 November 2020
Coins, banknotes, medals, seals (numismatics)
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 stored 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

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 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.
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Imprint:   BookBaby
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 285mm,  Width: 222mm,  Spine: 35mm
Weight:   2.458kg
ISBN:   9781098317553
ISBN 10:   1098317556
Pages:   598
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. Hi 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.

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