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A record of the Coinage of the Americas Conference held in 1992. Contents: An American
Collector's Guide to the Coins of Nouvelle France, Boulton, Watt and the Canadian
Adventure, The Magdalen Island Token, The Powell and the Sutherland Golden Wedding
Commemoratives, The So-Called English Issues of the Bank of Montreal, Medallic Memorials
of the Visit of the Prince of Wales to North America in 1860, and Patterns and Trial
Pieces of Canada. 159p, many b/w pls (The American Numismatic Society, 1994) ISBN
0897222520. Hardback. Blue cloth! Used, Very Fine - near new condition.
Canada's
Money
November 7, 1992 Canada's Money. John M. Kleeberg, Editor Coinage of the Americas
Conference Proceedings No. 8 (New York, The American Numismatic Society 1994) illus. ISBN
0-89722-252-0.
Preface Canada's money provided the subject for the eighth annual Coinage
of the Americas Conference sponsored by the American Numismatic Society. Since its
inception, this program has enjoyed the enthusiastic support of the Society's governing
Council as a forum for the dissemination of emerging research in the coinage and currency
of North and South America.
The purpose of these conferences is to facilitate the
exchange of information. Toward this end, experts in the field are invited to present
papers, collectors are invited to exhibit, and notice of the conference is circulated
widely to encourage attendance by all interested in the topic. The Society also mounts an
exhibition from its holdings and invites registrants to come to know the Society's
collections and library better during the days of the conference.
A special exhibit of
Canadian money was organized by Anthony Terranova with the assistance of modern curator
Dr. John Kleeberg and registrar Katharina Eldada. This exhibit showed selections from the
collections of Joseph Lasser, Anthony Terranova, George Cuhaj, and Normand Pepin, plus
examples from the collection of the ANS. A special exhibit on the Canada 125 Coin Program
was provided through the courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mint.
HODDER, MICHAEL. An
American Collector's Guide to the Coins of Nouvelle France.
A brief historiographical
review and a type catalogue of French colonial coins.
DOTY, RICHARD G. Boulton, Watt and
the Canadian Adventure.
Examines the connection between Boulton, Watt & Co. (Soho,
Birmingham, England) between the 1790s and the mid-1840s, in light of the larger links to
the United States during most of the same period. The connection only became important
once the firm's forty-year trade with the United States Mint came to a close, in
1837.
KATEN, FRANK and TAYMAN, BARRY. The Magdalen Island Token.
A brief history of the
"penny" token struck privately by the Coffin family who owned this island in the
gulf of the St. Lawrence River; includes a graded listing of all important sales.
BAKER,
WARREN. The Powell and Sutherland Golden Wedding Commemoratives.
A comprehensive
examination of archival records pertaining to two medals commemorating golden wedding
anniversaries; in one case the male spouse was an eminent jurist, in the other he was an
investor in the Northwest Company (a rival of the Hudson's Bay company in the fur
trade).
ESLER, J. GRAHAM. The So-Called English Issues of the Bank of Montreal.
This
article examines the position of the Bank of Montreal during the decade before
Confederation, the conditions which led to the issuing of the so-called English Issues,
and finally the notes themselves, focusing on the paper money issues of 1852 and
1856.
MILLER, SCOTT. Medallic Memorials of the Visit of the Prince of Wales to North
America in 1860.
A brief history of the visit by the Prince of Wales to North America in
1860 is presented, accompanied by a catalogue of medals and tokens issued in connection
with the royal tour.
KASLOVE, HILLEL. Patterns and Trial Pieces of Canada.
A
comprehensive listing of all Canadian pattern and trial pieces including several
previously unpublished. An appendix contains a concordance of Charlton, Bowman and
McLachlan numbers as well as a corrected list of specimens in the National Currency
Collection, Bank of Canada. |
