World Coins in Early America Type Set

Boosibri

BJ and the Registry team have launched a new set which I have been working with them on for the last few months.

The World Coins in Early America type set is meant to be a representative set of world issues which circulated in Early America. While no where near exhaustive, this set is meant to give form and structure to a deeply interesting period of our nations history which saw the early nation developing its monetary system while leveraging circulating currency from across the world.

Over the next several days I will seek to provide details with the help of John Agre of CoinRaritiesOnline to dive more deeply into each issue or series within the set.

A Big thank you to the Set Registry team!

Barndog

excellent idea. Here's the page: pcgs.com/setregistry/composite.aspx?c=6333

set composition:

Spanish Colonial Pillar 1/2 Real (1732-1772)
Spanish Colonial Pillar Real (1732-1772)
Spanish Colonial Pillar 2 Reales (1732-1772)
Spanish Colonial Pillar 4 Reales (1732-1772)
Spanish Colonial Pillar 8 Reales (1732-1772)
Spanish Colonial Portrait 1/2 Real (1772-1825)
Spanish Colonial Portrait 1 Reales (1772-1825)
Spanish Colonial Portrait 2 Reales (1772-1826)
Spanish Colonial Portrait 4 Reales (1772-1825)
Spanish Colonial Portrait 8 Reales (1772-1824)
Spanish Colonial 1/2 Escudo (1814-1821)
Spanish Colonial 1 Escudos (1772-1824)
Spanish Colonial 2 Escudos (1772-1821)
Spanish Colonial 4 Escudos (1732-1821)
Spanish Colonial 8 Escudos (1772-1824)
Spain Spanish 2 Reales (Pistareen) Philip V (1716-1745)
England Farthing (1749) 1749
England Half Penny (1749) 1749
England Guinea George III (1761-1813)
Netherlands 1/2 Lion Daalder (1575-1713)
Netherlands Lion Daalder (1575-1713)
France Sou Marques (1738-1762)
France Copper Sol John Law (1719-1720)
France France Ecu (1715-1792)
France France Louis d'Or (1715-1793)
Portugal 4000 Reis Moidores (1683-1706, 1707-1722)
Brazil John V or Jose I 6400 Reis (1727-1750, 1751-1777)

Boosibri

Thanks for posting that.... i was struggling to do so from my phone.

golden

Looks like a good list to me.

dadams

@Boosibri thanks for making that happen. I'm not a registry player but I very much collect off of the registry set compositions in some sets. I've been US type collecting and have a couple of these "World Coins circulating in early America" issues already. Looking forward to learning more about them.

HandH

Congrats Boosi. I know that you worked hard for this. Hopefully it opens up new collectors to this area.

DCW

Will be a very intersting post, I'm sure. Thanks for the hard work

ricko

I find it amazing how many different foreign coins circulated.... the merchants - and lay people - needed to have substantial knowledge of coinage in order to use so many different countries coins. Cheers, RickO

Justacommeman

Well done Brian. Well done indeed

mark

Tibor

Is this a final list or will it be expanded as research allows?

I think merchants and other trades people usually weighed
the coins for transactions. Maybe someone here can give info
on their use.

Yorkshireman

Cool idea!