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From: "Mark Varney" <rokboy@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Fun Find!
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Pretty cool, Dan!
Mark
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From: Freidus, Daniel [mailto:colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Freidus, Daniel
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:55 PM
To: colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Fun Find!
Where do you make your great finds: unattributed R-6 coppers in a bulk
lot, rare paper money sold for 'type' prices, a scarce first edition
book in a public library used book sale? On occasion, I've been lucky
enough to have things like that happen (admittedly, the occasions are R6
or R7 but still nice).
Well, today I made a very nice find in a surprising place, my own
collection. I think a year or so ago I bought a group lot of 18th
century almanacs hoping to find something like what Alan exhibited at a
recent C4, a chart of coin values in various colonies or states.
One of those alamanacs was missing the title page and may pages were
bent. On quick examination, the coin chart I saw wasn't one of the
better ones and that page was missing a piece. I had reason to be going
through items like these this week and just noticed that this is a 1788
NJ almanac, so it was printed in Fall of 1787. This alamanac includes a
printing of the entire U.S. Constitution, printed a month or two after
the Consitutional Convention accepted it but probably printed before the
first state ratified it in December of 1787.
Now I just need to keep my eye out for a 1776 printing of the
Declaration! (or buy a metal detector)
Dan F.
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