Gilding/Silvering Público Deposited
Re
- From palmers4@erols.com Sat Feb 01 08:49:15 2003
Return-Path: <palmers4@erols.com>
X-Sender: palmers4@erols.com
X-Apparently-To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com
Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_4); 1 Feb 2003 16:49:15 -0000
Received: (qmail 50299 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 16:49:15 -0000
Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216)
by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 1 Feb 2003 16:49:15 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO n28.grp.scd.yahoo.com) (66.218.66.84)
by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 16:49:14 -0000
Received: from [66.218.67.157] by n28.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 01 Feb 2003 16:49:14 -0000
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 16:49:14 -0000
To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Gilding/Silvering
Message-ID: <b1gtqa+47cd@eGroups.com>
In-Reply-To: <b1gsiu+5bi2@eGroups.com>
User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: 2111
X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster
From: "David L. Palmer <palmers4@erols.com>" <palmers4@erols.com>
X-Originating-IP: 24.186.173.179
X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=35383343
X-Yahoo-Profile: dp1787
Not necessarily a colonial, but usually collected along side them
are the Washington Success Tokens, which are silvered(most) and some
have been gilded. David
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "mantoloking2002
<rogersiboni@a...>" <rogersiboni@a...> wrote:
> Bill,
>
> You might take a look at the Sommers Island Schilling series. They
> were maunfactured in England (probably) in the 1600s with a
> deliberate silver wash over the copper. The coin was manufactured
for
> the Bermuda Colonists (once part of the Virginia teritory). I
beleive
> the initial run of the Bermuda pieces were done in copper, but the
> colonists rejected them as not being of sufficient metalic worth
to
> support the Schilling face value. So all the following shipment
were
> silvered to add some value but more importantly to give the
> appearance of value.
>
> Roger
>
> --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "bkweston <bkweston@l...>"
> <bkweston@l...> wrote:
> > --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Snyder
> > <billsnyder2000@y...>" <billsnyder2000@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any copper Colonials that have been
> silvered
> > or
> > > are gilt (like some English Conders)? Were any of these
> > produced 'over
> > > here'?
> > >
> > > Which brings up the question of why even do it?
> > >
> > >
> > > Bill
> >
> > I remember a seller on eBay offering a 'mooshed out' (probably
> > flattened between two pieces of leather, and not affecting the
> > details too much) Woods Hibernia that showed signs of silvering,
> > which I reiterated to the seller may have been done to pass it
off
> as
> > a higher denomination. He sort of didn't like that theory as he
was
> > passing it off as having been made/struck that way.
> > I've seen other coins, even counterfeit halfpence, that showed
even
> > strong signs of having been silvered at one time, and I still
can
> > only surmise that it was done to pass them off as a higher
> > denomination. Small denomination copper of the time didn't have
a
> > denomination on it after all.
> > Byron - 2003-02-01
- 1
