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  2. Fugio cent - Wikipedia

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    In 1788, the Bank of New York stored several thousand Fugio cents in a keg in its basement. In 1856, the coins were put into cotton bags and stored away again. The trove was rediscovered in 1926. [2] The coins were then given out as souvenirs and keepsakes to clients until 1948 when the American Numismatic Society examined the remaining 1,641 ...

  3. Conder token - Wikipedia

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    An arrangement of Provincial Coins, tokens, and medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, within the last twenty years, from the farthing to the penny size (First ed.). Ipswich, England: G. Jermyn. Dalton, Richard; Hamer, Samuel H. (1910–17). The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Dykes, David (2011).

  4. Continental Currency dollar coin - Wikipedia

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    The Continental Currency dollar coin (also known as Continental dollar coin, Fugio dollar, or Franklin dollar) was the first pattern coin struck for the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The coins, which were designed by Benjamin Franklin , were minted in 1776 and examples were made on pewter , brass , and silver planchets .

  5. Coins of Australia - Wikipedia

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    For many years after the first Australian colony, New South Wales (NSW), was founded in 1788, it did not have its own currency and had to rely on the coins of other countries. During the early days of the colony, commodities such as wheat were sometimes used as a currency because of the shortage of coins.

  6. History of Australian currency - Wikipedia

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    At federation in 1901 and for a period afterwards, the currency used in the Australian colonies which became states consisted of British silver and copper coins, Australian minted gold sovereigns (worth £1) and half sovereigns, locally minted copper trade tokens (suppressed in 1881, some state earlier [8]) and private bank notes.

  7. Vermont copper - Wikipedia

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    On that coin a bust of George III is encircled by the inscription GEORGIVS. III. REX. and the reverse with a seated female embodiment of Britain called Britannia. A common explanation of the redesign of Vermont's coins, so close to the British half-pence model, has been made to make their circulation and exchange easier beyond Vermont's boundaries.

  8. Soho Mint - Wikipedia

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    Soho Mint in 1773. Soho Mint was created by Matthew Boulton in 1788 [1] in his Soho Manufactory (grid reference) in Handsworth, West Midlands, England.A mint was erected at the manufactory containing eight machines, to his own patent design, [2] driven by steam engine, each capable of striking 70 to 85 coins per minute.

  9. Spanish dollar - Wikipedia

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    The latter coin was used for Dutch trade in the Middle East, in the Dutch East Indies and West Indies, and in the Thirteen Colonies of North America. [8] For the English North American colonists, however, the Spanish peso or "piece of eight" has always held first place, and this coin was also called the "dollar" as early as 1581.