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V21 2018 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 30, July 29, 2018, Article 2

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The first issue of the American Numismatic Society’s Journal of Early American Numismatics (JEAN) has shipped to readers. Replacing The Colonial Newsletter (CNL), JEAN expands on the depth and breadth of early numismatics in the Americas. At 236 pages, issue 1.1 features five articles:

1. Fiscal Paper and the Financing of The Revolutionary War: The Link between Speculation in Public Securities and Connecticut Coppers, by JEAN’s editor Christopher R. McDowell

2. (Re-)Discovery: Yale’s Second and Third Noe II-A New England Shillings, by B. D. R. Hellings

3. The Evolution of Spanish and Colonial Coinage and its Influence on the United States, by Brian Stickney

JEAN will be published in June and December of each year, with article submissions anonymously peer-reviewed on a rolling basis by scholars in American numismatics.

The ANS is honoring all current CNL subscriptions in 2018. New subscriptions (and renewed subscriptions beginning with June 2019) are $60 for the calendar year (two issues) plus $5 shipping and handling. New subscribers starting after July 2018 will receive a catch-up copy of issue 1.1 (June 2018).

To submit an article for possible publication, email it to editor Christopher McDowell at CRMcDowell@strausstroy.com. Emma Pratte (epratte@numismatics.org) handles new subscriptions and subscription fulfillment.

Please suggest this journal to your public or university library.
Print ISSN: 2577-5774
Digital ISSN: 2577-5782

We are well underway with the next issue of JEAN. I hope to tackle at least one Red Book colonial coinage series an issue and present to our readers the definitive article on the coinage. Issue #2 of JEAN will take on all the mysteries of the Rhode Island ship medal and challenge conventional wisdom that it is an English propaganda piece. In addition, we will be presenting some very new and exciting information on counterfeit coining in New York City during the 1780s.

Gary Trudgen, one of our old friends and a past editor of CNL, has been very hard at work digging deep into the Atlee Brewery story. The old New York City brewery, which eventually become nothing more than a front for illegal counterfeiting, was the early gathering place of die-sinkers and coin-makers who went on to strike several colonial coinages with some even finding work at the U.S. Mint after it opened. I hope to have Issue #2 in our subscribers’ hands right before Christmas so it can be enjoyed over the New Year.

The new publication has been long-awaited, and "turns it up a notch" for the level and quality of research, writing, and editing. This wasn't a name change for the sake of a name change - it was a substantive makeover taking an already great publication and making it even better. At 236 pages the debut issue is more like a full book, and well worth the subscription cost. -Editor