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Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Gilding/Silvering
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I posted this once, but it apparently didn't take...
If you really want an eye-opener, look at the government that the
Five Nations (six after 1722) establihed around 1570. It isn't hard
to see in it legislative, judical and executive branches, an
electoral college, the concept of executive veto, right of secession,
etc. It was a solid confederation of sovereign states until loyalties
split during the revolution. Given the 18th American obsession with
freedom being the natural state of man and observation of nature, it
is obvious that, if these Native concepts didn't drive the
architecture of our Confederation and Constitution governments, they
at least provided a comparative model that was known to have worked
for more than two centuries. Plus, their use of wampum ceremonially
at council raised the visibility of wampum enough for the Dutch to
seize upon and corrupt (unless you buy the 'Money Speech' in Atlas
Shrugged) the idea.
Will
PS: With respect to silvered/gilded 'colonials', I have an AU-58 VA
1/2d that is silvered - probably to look like a 1774 shilling, but
maybe as a circulating shilling. The silvering is intact, so I
suspect the former. It was done long enough ago to have acquired a
nice patina. I also have a 1791 Wash. large eagle cent that is
gilded. The gold is worn from its high points. I have seen at least
two others like this. Could they have been done as a group for
commemoration of Washington's 2nd inauguration or other event? Also
have a couple of silver/brass 2R's (both 1721)
--- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "bkweston <bkweston@l...>"
<bkweston@l...> wrote:
> --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "mike hodder <mhodder@t...>"
> <mhodder@t...> wrote:
> > Byron:
> >
> > Us Europeans have a lot to answer for.
> >
> > Mike H
>
> Tecnically I'm mostly German, and so probably should say no more on
> that.<s>
> Byron
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