August 27, 1776

Inspired70

On this date, in the heat of the American Revolutionary War, members of the 1st Maryland Regiment repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of Long Island, allowing General Washington and the rest of the American troops to escape.

To honor the heroes of the American Revolutionary War, show a coin from the 1700's.

TomB

To those brave troops-

Inspired70

Bullsitter

coinnut

Mr_Spud

JimW

winesteven

My only coin from the 1700’s:

Steve

MidLifeCrisis

keyman64

I enjoyed owning this one for a while.

Floridafacelifter

winesteven

@Floridafacelifter said:

EVERY time I see photos of your coins, I look like this:

Steve

Floridafacelifter

@winesteven said:

@Floridafacelifter said:

Haha thanks- I appreciate it!

Nysoto

TwoKopeiki

1776 you say?

CommemDude

ricko

Salute to the troops that gave us our freedom and this great country. I do not have any U.S. coins with a 17xx date.... Cheers, RickO

1630Boston

shish

Nic

The enemy:

SaorAlba

BustDMs

We circulated in the Americas also.

CharlotteDude

AUandAG

Nothing of that era for me but here's the Kings proclamation
one year earlier.

Zoins

@Floridafacelifter said:

Wonderful @Floridafacelifter! I'm glad you got Catherine's name added to the slab!

Here's some text from the Stack's log description for the Pogue sale:

Stack's Bowers said:
It was sold in a little publicized sale held in Center City Philadelphia in 2005 by the estimable Catherine Bullowa, then 85 years old and in her 52nd year in the coin business. The last 56 lots were headlined "these are some of my favorite things," described as "the ones that spoke to me, and in some cases, sang to me." Mrs. Bullowa had "been the loving keeper of these pieces for some 50 to 60 years," she recalled in a 2013 interview, adding that this dollar had been acquired from a collector in 1965 as part of a larger cabinet. Selling the remainder of the collection over time, she never parted with this dollar until the now-legendary 2005 auction. Recalling the moment it sold for a seven-figure sum, Mrs. Bullowa said "I was ready to faint. I didn’t even know how to write a million! But Ron Guth was the auctioneer and he helped me." The catalog was written by her friend Anthony Terranova, a renowned New York City dealer, who described this coin's "prooflike surfaces with deep mirror effect" and called it "very similar to Amon Carter’s 1794 dollar," the Specimen-66 (PCGS) Cardinal Collection example that holds the record for most valuable coin ever sold.

This coin was the highlight of an auction that recalled the Philadelphia auctions of a century ago, an event that is still talked about by the numismatists who were present. Since that time, no 1795 dollar has ever been graded higher than MS-65+, leaving this, alone, atop the PCGS Population Report. David Hall has singled it out on the PCGS CoinFacts site as “the finest known example,” an opinion that will provoke no disagreement from those who have had the opportunity to hold it in-hand.

Zoins

Two PCGS slabbed error tokens

1630Boston

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Thanks for remembering and sharing some history @Inspired70
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PerryHall

@1630Boston Great looking original chocolate brown coin that's perfect for the grade. That's the way old copper coins should look.

Floridafacelifter

This one I haven’t shown in a while- but I absolutely love it. Featured in the first photographic plate of U.S. coins, published in the April 1869 edition of the American Journal of Numismatics- the Joseph Levick Plate of 1793 Cents. Mortimer Livingston Mackenzie Collection- Alan V. Weinberg Collection.

ChangeInHistory

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Thanks @PerryHall > @PerryHall said:

@1630Boston Great looking original chocolate brown coin that's perfect for the grade. That's the way old copper coins should look.

Mike59

The Three Shilling note dated March 25, 1776.

jesbroken

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@Mike59 said:

The Three Shilling note dated March 25, 1776.

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"TO COUNTERFIET IS DEATH"
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That's great
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WilliamF

JohnnyCache

carabonnair

Here's my 1½¢ worth

RedSeals

RedSeals

Estil

Washington...first in war, first in peace, first on the dollars of his countrymen!

Desert Moon

A colorfully toned VF 18th century dollar:

RedSeals

Nysoto

From the US Mint's first chief engraver:

LanceNewmanOCC

"Fatti Maschii Parole Femine"

the word coin in the early part of the 1700s really takes on a liberal meaning since colonies BECAME states and their currencies. SO, since i'm not an expert and almost posted and Lord Baltimore since it is listed under Maryland in the PCGS colonial section, i opted not to post it with wording that they were struck in britain? for british colonies, kinda the opposite of what we are going for here. SO, i landed on these after searching for a while. for better or worse. viva la resistance for independence and democracy!

image: PCGS CF

Copper Inimica Tryannis

Description: Heritage Auctions (coin above)

A 12-page pamphlet dated May 13, 1785 was published at the same time as the report in the Journal of the Continental Congress. The pamphlet, Propositions Respecting the Coinage of Gold, Silver, and Copper, is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, and also included the work of Hugh Williamson, Robert Morris, and Gouverneur Morris. That report stated the original vision for the Inimica Tyrannis obverse design:

"An Indian, his right foot on a crown, a bow in his left-hand, in his right-hand thirteen arrows, and the inscription MANUS INIMICA TYRANNIS." (personal observation. isn't an indian with his foot on a crown odd?)
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Misc Below:

JohnnyCache

LanceNewmanOCC

@JohnnyCache said:

good grief those are some fantastic images. completely ignored the slab and got the coin in focus, sharp as a razor!

lovely dollar as well.