with Erik Goldstein, Curator of Mechanical Arts & Numismatics at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
This lecture was a part of the 2023 Coinage of the Americas Conference on September 22-23, 2023. Sponsored by Resolute Americana Collection and the Stack Family, this conference explored 18th & 19th century design and production.
A wonderful presentation on Massachusetts coinage in the 1652-1700 era. Then Erik moves onto an actual demonstration of minting these coins using a custom forged and built coining press based on the same equipment used in the workshop/mint of John Hull.
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"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector.
I remember I posted the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the daughter's bounty in silver XII Pence here on CCF in the past. There is so many interesting bits of history still to be uncovered and found out from our past and I think it's great that coinage helps us to uncover facts and tidbits of history through the study of numismatics.
If I get a chance to take another Summer Seminar at ANA Headquarters in Colorado Springs again, I think I would want to have John Kraljevich and Erik Goldstein teaching in their Early American Coinage and Currency class. Hope they bring it back again.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector.
Quote: I remember I posted the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the daughter's bounty in silver XII Pence
I noticed his reference to that story in the video. Hutchinson's "History of the colony of Massachusetts Bay" (1765) actually says that Hull's daughter, who married Samuel Sewall, received "thirty thousand pounds in New England shillings" (a shilling is the XII pence coin, right?). If it's 20 shillings to a pound, that would have been 600,000 XII coins. I don't know what the source of that was, but it seems like an impossible amount.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
It's not surprising that Hull, the mint-master of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a very wealthy man. It's also not difficult to imagine how primitive life was in the Colony in 1652, just 32 years after the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth.
Samuel Sewall is also an interesting historical figure who was a magistrate presiding at the Salem witch trials, which he later regretted, and the author of the first anti-slavery treatise in North America.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com
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Posted 10/03/2023 9:28 pm
Uncirculated American Silver Eagles 
