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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 33, August 12, 2001, Article 6 AUGUST COLONIAL NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED Phil Mossman writes: "Number #117 of The Colonial Newsletter, August 2001, has been sent to subscribers. This issue features an article by Brian Danforth in his continuing research regarding the circulation of William Wood's Hibernia coppers both in Ireland and the American colonies. Here he reexamines the historical record and challenges some of the popular numismatic tradition that has evolved concerning these coinages. In summary, they circulated widely in Ireland and were not rejected as Dean Swift's tirades against them would have us believe. Many were shipped to America in the mid-1730s but only after they had been replaced by regal Tower Mint issues. A find of coins from Upper New York State, recovered over a period of years by a metal detectionist, is examined in detail in an article contributed by John Lorenzo. These coins date from around the turn of the 19th century and are quite representative of other similar finds of the period. It is an analysis of data from such finds as this that have enabled us to develop a fair idea of the coins that circulated in pre-Federal America. David Gladfelter contributed an article featuring four engraved plates from the Earl of Pembroke's collection which depicted eleven early American coins. "The illustrations of these eleven pieces are, with the exception of John Evelyn's 1697 engraving of a St. Patrick's farthing, the earliest of American coins appearing in a numismatic publication." And lastly, Editor Emeritus, James C. Spilman, updated readers with a checklist of "Early American Counterfeit Halfpence Believed Struck in America."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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