Colonial Coins?

Don't forget the 13 colonies depended heavily on Spanish colonial reales for commerce. Most loans and contracts were written in terms of Spanish milled "dollars", or in other words....reales. This was the case when we were colonies of Britain and up until 1857. US federal coinage was mainly used for governmental transactions and bank reserves in the early United States with the bust half being the main bank reserve coin.
In the 13 colonies, our "dime" was the 1 real, the "quarter" was the 2 reales, the "half" was the 4 reales and a "dollar" was the 8 reales.
It must have been amazing to watch commerce transact in Spanish and Mexican reales, US dollars, British pounds, etc. It all revolved around the silver and gold content of the coin, rather than country of origin or currency unit.

I deplore "key date" coins as they are over-inflated status symbols. I would rather buy the Benjamin Franklin-designed Fugio cent with a ton of Early American history than buying a highly-faked coin where the mintage figure is just a bit less than other issues of the same series.

Why would you strike a coin for use in France that says French Colonies on it?