The early coins of America and the laws governing their issue : comprising also descriptions of the Washington pieces, the Anglo-American tokens, many pieces of unknown origin, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the first patterns of the United States Mint
A numismatic reference compiled and self-published in Boston in 1875 by Sylvester S. Crosby for collectors and antiquarians studying colonial and early federal American coinage. Its plates are outline engravings of coins shown as obverse-and-reverse pairs joined by a reference number, offering circular rim lettering, beaded and denticled borders, pine trees, radiant star clusters, seated Liberty with scales, and dated inscriptions.
