Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4)
Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4)
Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4)
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Colonial Coins Collectors Club The gathering place for collectors of United States Colonial coins
Excerpt From Club Website: C4’s Focus and Purpose The Colonial Coin Collectors Club (C4) was founded in 1993 to provide a forum for collectors of numismatic material related to the Early American era. This involves coins, tokens, currency, and medals. The exact time frame encompassed by colonial numismatics is open to debate, but is generally accepted to include the complete pre-federal period as well as some issues of the 1790’s. The early George Washington coins, tokens and medals are considered colonial items by most, and some of these date to the first half of the nineteenth century.
The club provides a forum for people interested in this period. The aims of the club are:
1- To increase the public’s knowledge about colonial numismatics through meetings, conventions and its newsletter.
2- To promote the study of colonial numismatics and to help disseminate this information.
3- To cultivate fraternal collector relations.
For these purposes, the club will hold several meetings during the year in conjunction with major numismatic shows.
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Upcoming Meetings & Events
EARLY AMERICAN COPPERS CONVENTION
May 1st - May 4th, 2014
Colorado Springs, CO
The Doubletree Colorado Springs
1775 E Cheyenne Mountain Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 8090
719-576-890
American Numismatic Association
World's Fair of Money Chicago
August 5th - 9th, 2014
Donald Stephens Convention Center
C4 Meeting Time (TBA)
C4 Annual Convention
October 30th - November 1st, 2014
Baltimore, MD
Award Winning Newsletter
The American Numismatic Association's Outstanding Club Publications contest began in 1971. It's purpose is to recognize the best journals and newsletters produced by ANA-member organizations.
The C4 Newsletter was selected by a panel of judges to receive the American Numismatic Associations Outstanding Specialty Club Publication Award three years in a row. The C4 Newsletter's long time editor Syd Martin was commended for his hard work on the Colonial Coin Collectors Club newsletter.
2013 Third Place Winner The C4 Newsletter, Colonial Coin Collectors Club Editor: Syd Martin
2012 Second Place Winner The C4 Newsletter, published by the Colonial Coin Collectors Club; Editor: Syd Martin
2011 Third Place Winner The C4 Newsletter, published by the Colonial Coin Collectors Club
Editor: Syd Martin
C4 LENDING LIBRARY
C4 LENDING LIBRARY is available to C4 and Early American Coppers Club members. Take advantage of this membership perk and enjoy learning more about colonial coins and currency.
What to collect?
What to collect? Colonial Currency
There are multiple ways to start a colonial collection. You can start with a basic colonial coin type set. This carries you from 1652 into the post-Confederation period.
State coinages also offer a very popular and varied field. You can select from Massachusetts silver, Massachusetts copper, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont coppers, and New York-related issues (none officially authorized). The Fugio cents represent the first coins issued under the authority of the United States in what proved to be a largely unsuccessful venture.
You can also collect some of the private, speculative issues like the Continental "Dollars," the Constellatio Novas, and some of the early Washington issues. The field of "Washingtonia" allows you to focus either on the early coin patterns, expand into the later (1790-1810 ) tokens and medals, or go into the endless variety of Washington issues that have surfaced throughout the history of this country. Colonial currency can be collected by state or Continental Congress issues, or by dates, denominations, signers, and by relation to important historical figures like Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere. From the purely historical perspective, Betts medals represent an excellent series. The variety within the colonial field is nearly endless and never dull.
Circulating Money Of Colonial America
A Type Set
An introduction to the circulating money of Colonial America: the primary coins used by colonists. There is an interesting story behind each type in this fascinating period of North American history. All of these coins are collectible. Many of the coins pictured on these pages can be found on eBay or from dealers that specialize in colonials and can be purchased for under a $100 in lower grades, exceptions being the Massachusetts silver.
Spanish Cobs and Milled Dollars
Spanish Cobs and Milled Dollars, were the principal coins of the American colonists. Mexico City (oM) and Santo Domingo (SP)were the first mints in North America. When the Mexico mint began operation in 1535, Hernán Cortés was still living in Mexico though no longer the Govern our of New Spain -- conquerors rarely follow orders well. Cortes’ palace was seized by the new Viceroy (Antonio de Mendoza)for the mint location! The primary denomination was eight (8) reales and its fractions (4,2,1,½). For the first two hundred years the struck coins tended to be very crude and became known as cobs (macuquina). Large numbers have been recovered from wrecks of the Spanish treasure fleet.
Milled coinage began in Mexico City in 1734. Sometimes a Spanish milled dollar was cut into smaller pieces or bits. Two reales, another common fraction, was also known as two bits. Copper was also struck early on for local circulation but gold coins were not struck until about 1700. These cobs and milled Spanish coins were in wide use throughout the Colonial period and up to 1850s.
Massachusetts Oak and Pine Tree shilling
Massachusetts Oak and Pine Tree shilling, sixpence, threepence were all dated 1652 and the oak twopence, 1662. John Hull and Robert Sanderson, the first American Silversmiths, authorized by the Bay Colony struck these coins in Boston from 1652 till the early 1680s. While never authorized by England, they circulated widely until end of 18th century. The Oak and Pine tree shillings were also known as Bay Colony or Boston money.
Dutch Lion Dollars (Leeuwendaalder)
Dutch Lion Dollars (Leeuwendaalder), an important Dutch trade coin first minted in Holland in 1575. Thought to have circulated in New Amsterdam during the Dutch period but lately shown to have circulated primarily from New York south to the Carolinas from the 1690s to 1730s; after the British took New Amsterdam from the Dutch (1664) and renamed it New York after the Duke of York, later King James II of England.
French coinage
French coinage for New (Nouvelle) France, a t its peak early in 18th century the territory, extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. France, unlike England, on occasion tried to supply colonists with small change from the 1640 counter-stamping of old douzains to the French Colonies coppers of 1767. Ceded to England and Spain in 1763.
American Plantations (10)
American Plantations(10), 1/24 real, 100% tin. First authorized coinage for the American colonies struck in 1688. British made but denominated in a Spanish unit because Spanish coins were the standard in use. Tin crumbles in freezing temperatures and these are rarely found without tin pest. Probably had only modest circulation as many are well worn.
William Wood’s coinage
William Wood’s coinage for North America and Ireland- Rosa Americana and Hibernia coppers. Rosas were not well received by the colonists and had limited circulation. The Rosas were struck in a compound metal called Bath metal. The Hibernias for other reasons were not well received in Ireland. There is debate on how many Hibernias were shipped to the American colonies. Dated from 1722-24.
British regal halfpence
and contemporary counterfeits or coppers
British regal halfpence and contemporary counterfeits or coppers. British regal halfpence and farthings were long the mainstay of small change but were driven out of commerce by ever increasing amounts of light weight counterfeits. Machin’s Mills the home of Col. Thomas Machin, a revolutionary war hero, was one source of locally produced light weight counterfeits. Machin’s Mills varieties are all quite distinctive. Massive numbers of other light weight counterfeit coppers were shipped to the American colonies in the 1770s and 80s. This is an area of active research.
Confederation era state copper coinage
Confederation era state copper coinage: Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey.Vermont and Connecticut were the first states to begin striking coppers in 1785. New Jersey followed in 1786 and Massachusetts in 1787. All ceased (officially) in 1788. Many varieties exist-Vermont (39varieties), Connecticut (355), New Jersey (144), and Massachusetts (51). Abel Buell and the Company for Coining Coppers were responsible for legally struck Connecticuts. James Jarvis eventually bought a controlling interest. Matthias Ogden, Walter Mould, Albion Cox and Thomas Goadsby were authorized to strike 3 million NJ coppers and it appears that they eventually did from at least three mints in New Jersey and possibly a couple more in New York. Reuben Harmon of Rupert, Vermont was authorized to strike coppers for Vermont. Eventually he sold an interest to the Machin’s Mills partnership. Massachusetts chose to establish a state mint and appointed Joshua Wetherle as mintmaster. He hired Joseph Callender and Jacob Perkins to engrave dies.
Fugio cents, all dated 1787(58)
Fugio cents, all dated 1787(58). The first coinage authorized by the American Congress. Design elements were the same as used on 1776 Continental Currency and were created /designed by Benjamin Franklin. Abel Buell (Connecticut coppers), engraved the dies. James Jarvis got the contract over Gen. Matthias Ogden (NJ coppers) by paying a $10,000 bribe to William Duer, head of the Board of Treasury. Jarvis was also provided 32 long to ns of copper at a nominal price and was required to coin about 32 million coppers. He coined a little over 10% of that amount and then defaulted. Congress obtained a judgment of $10,000+ but was never able to collect. Regal Machin’s Mills Machin’s Mills Toonhead
For more information contact Colonial Coin Collectors Club Author: J. Howes. Photographs: J. Howes, N. Rothschild.
Educational Resources
Informational websites: Learn more about Colonial coins
The Early American Coppers Club
Treasure Trove Early Money in America provided by the Federal Reserve Bank Of Philadelphia
Colonial Coins CoinFacts Wiki
CoinFacts (Colonial Section)
Colonial Williamsburg Numismatic Exhibit
The American Numismatic Society is a museum and research institute devoted to the study of coins from all periods and cultures.
The Colonial Newsletter Oliver Hoover, Editor The Colonial Newsletter (CNL) is a research journal dedicated to the study of early American numismatics.
The Robert H. Gore collection At Notre Dame University An exhibit of over 250 coins of colonial and early America from wampum and Massachusetts silver to the provisional half disme of 1792.
Dollars, Farthings & Fables: Money and Medals from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum in Colonial Williamsburg offers an exhibition which showcases some wonderful treasures from the numismatics collection, greatly enhanced through the generosity of the Lasser family. See the smallest and largest coins in the collection as well as the prettiest and ugliest. Find out about the first dollar bill, the medals that were produced to honor George Washington, and the first coins made in the New World. One of our newest acquisitions is an amazing collection of paper money that was amassed in the late 18th century by Samuel Cornell of North Carolina. Like other pieces in the exhibition, it has an interesting story to tell. Through September 28, 2014
Massachusetts Historical Society
The MHS numismatic collection consists of approximately 5,000 medals and tokens, 100 coins, 400 buttons and ribbons, and 3,000 examples of paper money. The strengths of the collection are early colonial Massachusetts coinage, paper money circulating in Massachusetts in the colonial period, paper money and fiscal paper issued by the Continental Congress, obsolete bank notes and scrip issued in Massachusetts, and medals and tokens related to Massachusetts and to the Society's manuscript collections.
Articles
Foreign Coins of the U.S. Founding Fathers
In this interview, Colonial Coin Collectors Club president Ray Williams talks about early American coins. Along the way he looks at the differences between type and die-variety collecting and explains how the first mints were designed to be moneymaking ventures in more ways than one. Williams can be contacted via www.colonialcoins.org. Continue Reading At The Source Collectors Weekly
American Colonial Coins Pre-Declaration Issues, Brasher Doubloon and American Confederation Coinage. Read about the history of Early American Coins & Tokens, including American Colonial Coins Pre-Declaration Issues, Brasher Doubloon, and American Confederation Coinage. Continue Reading At The Source NGC Coin Explorer
May 2, 2007 British Colonial collecting by Tom Michael
To build a nice working library for British Colonial coinage today, you would have to buy between ten and twenty books. First I would recommend tracking down one of the two major older catalogs on British Commonwealth and Colonial coins: Continue Reading At The Source Numismatic News
February 17, 2009 Why not give Colonial paper money a try? by By Bill Brandimore
December 11, 2009 C4 holds convention, forum by NMN
Members and guests of the Colonial Coin Collectors’ Club (C4) attended the group’s annual convention and educational forum Nov. 19-22, held in conjunction with the Bay State Coin Show in Boston, Mass.
Continue Reading At The Source Numismatic News
April 6, 2012 Early coins top Baltimore sale
August 27, 2012 C4 member, newsletter recognized The Colonial Coin Collectors Club’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Kenneth E. Bressett by C4 President Jim Rosen Aug. 11 at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money in Philadelphia Continue Reading At The Source Numismatic News
November 22, 2012 Rare Colonial coin found on LI sells for $430G A rare Colonial Massachusetts silver coin found by an East Hampton woman in an old potato field almost 23 years ago was auctioned for more than $430,000 last week in Baltimore. The 1652 New England sixpence had been off the market in a private collection for 21 years and was expected to sell for $100,000, but was resold for four times that price, auction officials said. Continue Reading At The Source Newsday
December 28, 2012 990-lot auction highlights C4 convention by NMN
The 18th annual consecutive convention of the Colonial Coin Collectors Club, C4, was held at the Baltimore, Md. Convention Center Nov. 15-17, 2012, in conjunction with the Whitman Coins and Collectibles Expo. This was the first year the convention was not held in Boston since the mid-1990s and marks a historic beginning of a relationship with Stack’s Bowers Galleries.
According to Jim Rosen, President of C4, “This convention was one of the best we have ever had in terms of activity, attendance and auction. Continue Reading At The Source Numismatic News
December 15,2012 Kicking it up in Baltimore By John Kraljevich
C4 healthy, vibrant organization C4 is almost 20 years old and has never been healthier, with good leadership, an active membership and an excellent periodical, the C4 Newsletter. Its convention, held from Nov. 15 to 18 this year, saw strong attendance, with a room-capacity crowd at the educational forum, several specialty dealers in a dedicated C4 section of the enormous Baltimore bourse floor, and perhaps the most important C4 auction in the club’s history.
Whereas past C4 auctions have been private, members-only events, the club, led by President Jim Rosen, made the decision this year to join with Stack’s Bowers Galleries for the auction, hoping to reach out to Colonial collectors who aren’t yet members of the organization. The auction ended up being the most newsworthy event in the club’s history, with the name of the club even splashed in articles in the major Long Island newspaper, Newsday, and distributed nationwide by the Associated Press. Continue Reading At The Source Coin World
Publications
New Jersey State Coppers Roger S. Siboni, John L. Howes, and A. Buell Ish
From Crime to Punishment: Counterfeit and Debased Currencies in Colonial and Pre-Federal America Philip L. Mossman
The Silver Coins of Massachusetts Christopher J. Salmon
The Rosa Americana Coinage of William Wood Sydney F. Martin
The Hibernia Coinage of William Wood (1722-1724) Sydney F. Martin
Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins by Q. David Bowers
Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins by Walter Breen
A Guidebook of United States Coins 2014: The Official Red Book
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