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- From rokboy@comcast.net Fri May 25 19:15:32 2007
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Pretty cool, Dan!
Mark
-----Original Message----- 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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