By John S Dye
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ANGLO-AMERICAN, AMERICAN COLONIAL, AND CONTI-
NENTAL matters ANGLO-AMERICAN TOKENS, AND
THE development items, EXPERIMENTAL ISSUES,
AND
COINS OF the U.S. OF AMERICA.
TOGETHER WITH A GENERA]. heritage OF
MINES, MINING, MINTS, ASSAYS, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER FIFTEEN HUNDRED FAC-SIMILES.
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Creator live ; service in government, every scheme of finance attempted in ignorance or defiance of the natural law involved, must first become an engine for the enslavement and oppression of the people, and finally be reorganized with more intelligence society, each plan of and justice, or perish by righteous rebellion in the convulsions of bloody revolution. been found possible, and even tolerably convenient, to supply the wants of a vast and dense population, to develop a high degree of social order, to support an elaborately magnificent System of religion, and thoroughly conduct, over imIt has mense comprehensive and painswithout any but the rudest taking imperial government, of method most the exchange.
PRIMITIVE FORMS OF MONEY. as silver for a long time. goe six a penny" in New New rency of was voted "to In 1640, Wampum Haven. The Sewan was Netherlands in 1641. 25 the cur- At New Amsterdam, now New York city, "four beads of good black, well strung wampum, or eight of the white," were reckoned of the value of one Stuyver, a Dutch coin worth about a cent. In 1650, "there being at present no other specie," /Sewan was made lawfully current, at the rate of three black or six white beads of "commercial Sewau," or four black and six white "of the the rate ordered "to goe" in base strung," for one Sluyver New Haven.
In 1838, a great quantity of Lignite and Coal money, was found in a small oblong oval mound, on the banks of the Miami river, in Ohio the largest of which was about an inch in diameter, the size of the old cent of the United States, but much thicker than that copper in the ; Some of these The faces of coin. holes. pieces were perforated with sixteen small others were inscribed with from five to eight parallel lines, and on one specimen the lines were crossed, forming diamond-shaped figures. This lignite and coal money, when brought to the surface, soon crumbled to disintegration, and the signs of inscriptions upon it were too indistinct to be of value to the archeologist.