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 92
English token, isvery doubtful. A splendid specimen, in silver, is in the collec-tion of John F. McCoy, Esq., of New York. In 1794 a French company proposed a settlement, and did at-tempt it, in the northern part of New York, which they namedCastorville. It was located where Carthage, in Jefferson… … WASHINGTON COINS. colony, and though it never passed into circulation, it is interest-ing as the only permanent memorial of an attempted colonizationof this State which failed and has been forgotten. The dies ofthis coin are still extant in France, and fine specimens are easilyprocured. It may…
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