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I gave a talk on the Immunis at C4 in 2000. I need to find my slides
to review the material, but I had no great final conclusion. One
point is that these coins were heavy, averaging 157 grains (as I
remember) with several near 175 gr (not the 150 gr NJ standard) They
are also undertypes for the Clinton piece. Also the Ford 56-n
overstrike on a Clinton exists (see Breen)
--- In colonial-coins@y..., Ray Williams <njraywms@o...> wrote:
> Just received the Jan 28 issue of Coin World and greatly enjoyed
Dan Freidus article on page 60 about the Immunis Columbia. Dan, can
you post your articles on the colonial egroups without violating
copyrights? Also, I felt you had a lot more to say about
the "unraveling and reraveling" of the mystery of the Immunis
Columbia, but didn't have the space or the audience... Possibly you
could expand on this in an article for the C4 Newsletter? I agree
that the overstruck coins were probably tests for the dies - the
engraver just used what was close at hand. I don't think that the
coins struck on virgin planchets were being made by Ogden at
Elizabethtown. He or others could have made them at Rahway. Mould
could have made them at Morristown when the small planchets were sent
there with the minting equipment, but I doubt it. If The Immunis
Columbia was made as a sample for a coinage proposal, I think Ogden
would have done it - Mould, Goadsby and Cox didn't have the political
clout to make a proposal. Although Mould had political connections
in Morristown, I don't think they were strong in state politics. I'd
like to see the mystery unraveled again - 2002-01-24
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