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Something special for Early Copper collectors

RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
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Here's something collectors of early U.S. coppers will appreciate. The information is not new, but few have seen the original coiner's record book.

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  • Mercury10cMercury10c Posts: 2,958
    That's pretty neat. Looks like someone did the math, and wrote the sum below in pencil (and got it wrong).
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,550 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That is cool. image
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,723 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>That's pretty neat. Looks like someone did the math, and wrote the sum below in pencil (and got it wrong). >>

    yeah, I kept looking at that and thinking, "wow, my math skills are seriously lacking here!" image
  • raysrays Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow. Is the document in the National Archives? That's where Breen got a lot of his data.
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    There is also a ledger and a copper account book from which a lot of information can be extracted. This work has, I believe, been fully explored by Bob Julian Walter Breen and other notable researchers. I just thought collectors might like to see an image or two.

    (PS: The math is correct. The last digit in the first entry is an "8" not a "0.")
  • Walkerguy21DWalkerguy21D Posts: 11,682 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I just thought collectors might like to see an image or two. >>


    Yes - thanks for sharing!
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  • speetyspeety Posts: 5,424 ✭
    Math looks right to me? 13,187?

    Edit, just saw RWB confirmed...
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  • Ed1840Ed1840 Posts: 355
    Love the history. Thanks for sharing.
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 23,225 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Were those "monetization of the currency" transactions? If so, maybe they were the very first ones? Pretty cool.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very interesting numismatic artifact. Thanks. Cheers, RickO
  • crazyhounddogcrazyhounddog Posts: 14,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That sure is some beautiful hand writing!! Very coolimage
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