The American numismatical manual of the currency or money of the aborigines, and colonial, state, and United States coins. With historical and descriptive notices of each coin or series (1859)
Dickeson, Montroville Wilson · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 49
ead, and iron, which were fashioned into forms,evincing a skill in art to which the descendants of the aborigines now surviving arestrangers. Here we find shells from the sea-side; mica from the primitive formation; coal andlignite from the secondary; gold and silver from the Carolinas — perhaps… … NH,i,«wU. L..1I, I]iiIjh|U ABORIGINAL COINS. 37 parts of our country, by those who heaped up these monuments over treasures —unwritten histories — for our instruction and enlightenment. Many of these specimens of American aboriginal art — such as they are — in manycases very rude, and in others of…
Numismatics · Coinage · Money · Indians of North America
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