How many colonial coppers per die max Public Deposited
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From: wierzba@mediaone.net
It would be useful to have a basis for estimating the max (or
average) number of coppers per die in the 1785-1790 period.
One reference I have come across is a quote from AJN, 1997 by S.E.
Buttrey and T.V. Buttrey (apologies to Mike H. on this source)
p.116 "....the spread of 12000-70000 coins per die attested at the
Royal Mint during 1874-76 is ..."
Given that this was 85 years after 1790, a reasonable max estimate
might be 40,000.
Phil Mossman in Money ... p 194 says 18,000-50,000 per die.(I am not
clear on his source, however)
Any ideas out there? - 2000-09-08
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