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  2. Early American currency - Wikipedia

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    The currency of the American colonies, 1700–1764: a study in colonial finance and imperial relations. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 0-405-07257-0. Ernst, Joseph Albert. Money and politics in America, 1755–1775: a study in the Currency act of 1764 and the political economy of revolution. Chapel ...

  3. Spanish colonial real - Wikipedia

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    The 8 reales coin is the predecessor to the American dollar. Before the United States Mint was in production, columnarios circulated, along with other coinage, in the US colonies, as legal tender until the middle of the 19th century. Prior to the columnario, Spanish coins were hammer struck. These rather crude looking coins were called cobs ...

  4. Currency of Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    The new coin design of 1572 (new for America, but already being minted in Spain) is known in English as the shield or the cross type. It was known in Mexico as maquina de papalote y cruz (windmill and cross money). These were hammered coins, produced quickly, and they generally deteriorated in quality throughout the period. Most cobs were soon ...

  5. Fugio cent - Wikipedia

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    Continental currency 1/3-dollar note (obverse), with the inscriptions "Fugio" and "Mind your business".. On April 21, 1787, the Congress of the Confederation of the United States authorized a design for an official copper penny, [3] later referred to as the Fugio cent because of its image of the Sun and its light shining down on a sundial with the caption, "Fugio" (Latin: I flee/fly, referring ...

  6. American colonial period silver coin shatters auction record ...

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    The threepence coin was made in 1652 in Boston, mere weeks after the first mint was set up in the colony, according to a statement from Stack’s Bowers Galleries, the auction house behind the sale.

  7. Currency Act - Wikipedia

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    The currency of the American colonies, 1700–1764: a study in colonial finance and imperial relations. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 0-405-07257-0. Ernst, Joseph Albert. Money and politics in America, 1755–1775; a study in the Currency act of 1764 and the political economy of revolution. Chapel ...

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