| Description: |
Circulating Counterfeits of the Americas edited by John M. Kleeberg
Coinage of the
Americas Conference at the American Numismatic Society, New York, held in 1998. A
collection of seven papers, plus two further papers forming the appendices, from the
Fourteenth Coinage of the Americas Conference held in 1998. The contributors focus on
counterfeits, a relatively neglected field of study in numismatics, in the 18th and 19th
centuries. 277p, b/w illus (American Numismatics Society 2000). ISBN 0897222792. Hardback,
red cloth. For Table of Contents please see bellow!
Contents: Preface Contributors JOHN
M. KLEEBERG Introduction PHILIP L. MOSSMAN and CHARLES W. SMITH Imported and Domestic
Counterfeit Cooper Coins in Pre-Federal America HORACE FLAT Counterfeiting of the Bolivian
Four Soles Coins KEITH DAVIGNON and BRADLEY S. KAROLEFF, NLG Circulating Counterfeit
Capped Bust Half Dollars, 1807-1839 JOHN M. KLEEBERG Counterfeit 2 Reals of the Bust Type:
Charles III, Charles IV, Ferdinand VII, 1771-1821; A Survey and Die Study JOHN P. LORENZO
The Counterfeit Spanish Two Reals: Canadian Blacksmiths or North American Tokens RICHARD
G. DOTY Adding Insult to Injury: Altered Notes of the Southern Bank of Georgia EMMET
MCDONALD Nineteenth-Century Counterfeit Detection Devices ERIC P. NEWMAN Appendix 1: A
Counterfeit's Arrest Proves the Circulation of Massachusetts Silver Shillings JOHN M.
KLEEBERG Appendix 2: Flowing Hair and Draped Bust Counterfeit Half Dollars in the ANS
Collection. |
