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 88
sioe. Yery few specimens of this coin areknown. The rarest of the New York coins, and one of the rarest coinsof the American copper series, is the George Clinton piece of1787, which we illustrate (Plate CV., Figure 1). This is the firsttime, we believe, that this coin has been illustrated (except… … STATE COINAGE. specimen has come into our possession within a short time. Wehave heard of no others. It is an interesting numismatic memorialof the first governor of the State, as well as of the early coinageof the country. It is remarkable that each of our specimens isstruck, as the engraving…
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