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 55
ecimens of coin or money are quite as frequently found in the moundsas the lignite, but they are not as well preserved. Subjected to the action of the air,they become very dry, soon become disintegrated, and crumble to pieces. They arealso less elaborately carved, owing to the difference in… … ABORIGINAL COINS. 39 agree with the lignite, except in being about double their thickness. We have metwith several hundreds of specimens in our explorations, but have been unable topreserve but few of them, some with figures. See fac-similes. Plate I, Figures 10,11, 16, 17, 18 and 19. The…
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