Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 72
r were not then worth much more than$1600, and the girl was not worth much if that were all hervalue. A very different weight from the $150,000 which, inseveral articles and works on numismatics, has been placed as theweight of the dowry. Lumping the young lady in such stylewould make her weigh… … MARYLAND COINAGE. Where or by whom issued does not now appear, and it remainsprobable that it was a tradesmans issue to attract attention, or toserve for copper change. The device, however, attracted someones eye who thought it the basis of a good colonial speculation,and two coins or tokens…
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