NNP Blog

4 DECEMBER 2021

The Earliest Known Coin Board?

A Henry H. Leeds sale of 1863 contains a lot described as "A board containing 56 copper cents, different dates, no 1793, -94, -99, or 1804." It appears we have a collector in 1863 attempting to fill a coin board, and encountering a number of missing issues.Sale catalog at: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=511140&AuctionId=520404.  This is the sale addenda, with the original catalog at https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=511140&AuctionId=520401.David Lange, author of the standard references on coin boards, commented "In all likelihood that was literally a board with cents mounted to it! I believe J. K. Post's place in numismatic history remains secure."