Colonial Collectors

I have been pretty eclectic in my colonial collection but right now am having a love hate relationship with Connecticuts. I love that you can cherrypick rarer varieties, and enjoy attributing them. The hate part comes in after hours of trying to attribute low grade pieces with not a lot of detail remaining. I have a couple of pieces of colonial paper and Continental Currency. I would like to get a Continental Currency note signed by Samuel Meredith, as his estate is close to me, and he is one of our local "celebrities".

Welcome! Post up some pics of those Connecticuts, and we'll see what we can do. And let's see that paper on the Paper Money forum!

Some very interesting varieties in the Connecticut Coppers.
Can't wait to see your collection!

Coins were manufactured in "America" staring 250 years before the first Connecticut copper found it way into circulation. Come over to the dark side of American Colonial Coins and see what "foreign" coins would "really" have been kicking around the various colonies back before the Declaration of Independence, when the land really was a collection of colonies. Coins minted late in the short period of time of the Articles of Confederation through the Constitutional Convention were issued from "states" not colonies. "States" coinage is interesting but short lived and more of a token coinage. Like collectors of "Civil War coins" who only buy coins minted in Philadelphia between 1861 and 1865 with emphasis on Civil War Tokens of 1863 - 1864, they would miss then vast majority of older dated coins actually used during the war, including nearly all the Confederate ones. Think of the whole field of "colonial coins" and you may find really historic examples starting under $15.00 a piece. Consider a Queen Elizabeth I six pence dating to the founding of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony, or an early King James I shilling as coins that belong in the American "Colonial" Series if you want to be English about it. Spanish, French, Dutch, and other New World colonies will give you plenty of latitude to explore regional and local history through "true colonial" coins that might have been here, back when.