The precursor of the Coinage of the Americas Conference series, this 1976 volume, edited by Eric P. Newman and Richard G. Doty, gathered a number of scholarly papers on American numismatics. Articles as follows:

William S. Sachs - The Business of Colonization

J. Earl Massey - Early Money Substitutes

Raphael E. Solomon - Foreign Specie Coins in the American Colonies

Walter Breen - North American Colonial Coinages under the French Regime (1640-1763)

Richard Picker - Variations of the Die Varieties of Massachusetts Oak and Pine Tree Coinage

Richard G. Doty - The Carolina and New England Elephant Tokens

John J. McCusker - Colonial Paper Money

Walter Breen - Legal and Illegal Connecticut Mints (1785-1789)

Eric P. Newman - American Circulation of English and Bungtown Halfpence

Kenneth E. Bressett - Vermont Copper Coinage

Eric P. Newman - George Washington's Unique 1792 Pattern in Gold

Don Taxay - Thomas Jefferson and the Founding of the Mint