JOURNAL OF EARLY AMERICAN NUMISMATICS V4N2

This is the December 2021 issue of the Journal of Early American Numismatics (JEAN). The issue was delayed because of supply chain problems, which have been addressed and will not reoccur. I received my copy this past week, and subscribers should be getting them any day now if they have not already been delivered.

The cover features the Continental dollar along with an image of Eric Newman because this issue starts with an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Newman on the Continental dollar. Even after all these years, Newman still has something to contribute to the topic.

This issue also contains a medley of articles on different topics of interest to those who collect and research items associated with this nation's founding. In fact, it may be our most diverse issue yet, containing articles on a mysterious theft of almost all the money in the New Jersey Treasury to the recovery of West African Manilla Currency from the muck of Philadelphia's harbor during the construction of I-95, which currency was used to buy and sell enslaved people along Africa's Gold Coast.

We also touch on traditional topics related to American currency, including the money of South Carolina and Decad coppers minted in New York City. This issue also features our first book review by Dr. Jesse Kraft on Jerome Jambu's fabulous new book on American coins in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). We hope to incorporate such reviews in future issues of JEAN.

Editor's Preface

Was 1776 Continental Currency Coinage also Intended to Circulate as Coppers?
Eric P. Newman

Thomas Coram, Engraver, and the Money of South Carolina
Joe Daragan

West African Manilla Currency Found during Interstate 95 Construction along the Philadelphia Waterfront
Roger A. Moore, Peter Douvres, Craig Bruns, Patrick Weeks

Edward Maris-Related Communications with J. E. Bull and other Documents Containing Maris's Signature
Roger A. Moore

The Brewey Mint and Decad Coppers
Gary A. Trudgen

An Uncommon Barking of Dogs: The 1768 Robbery of the Eastern Treasury and the Path to Revolution in New Jersey
Jesse Kraft

The Late Mrs. C. Wyllys Betts of New York City: Another Numismatic Mystery Put to Rest
Christopher R. McDowell

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