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Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Gilding/Silvering
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:40:52 -0800
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From: "THOMAS F. MADIGAN, III-" <madcoins@earthlink.net>
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I have a 1775 c/feit Geo III/Britannia 1/2 penny which is silvered. High
grade too, but holed. Purchased from Wall Street Rarities as on "off-metal"
which of course it isn't. I bought it after our John L. had left, making it
highly improbable that this error was his.
I decided to keep it regardless, as I already have a pewter 1775 c/feit.
Tom
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From: <wnippe@acxiom.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Gilding/Silvering
> 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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