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1891 newspaper with Colonial American Numismatics EARLY VERMONT COINS with ENGRAVINGS & long DESCRIPTION - inv # 2E-421
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Bennington Weekly Reformer (VT) dated Aug 21, 1891. This original newspaper contains prominent inside page "stacked" headings: "VERMONT COINS / These Illustrations Are Accurate Facsimilie of the Hard Money of Vermont When She was an Independent Republic." This has images (obverse and reverse) of 6 Colonial Vermont coins in circulation in Vermont before Vermont became a state in the US (1791). Long detailed text descriptions as well.
This issue also contains a very large front page engraved portrait of President BENJAMIN HARRISON
In 1785, Vermont was not a state in the United States or a colony – it was an independent republic. Reuben Harmon, of Rupert, Vermont was authorized to strike copper coins for the independent republic of Vermont. Colonel William Coley, who was a goldsmith from New York, was charged with creating the designs and the dies. Eventually, over that four-year period (1785 to 1788) fourteen different designs were tried and all circulated due to the scarcity of copper coinage in Vermont. The majority of these coins are well circulated and were struck, unfortunately, on poor-quality copper planchets. There were 13 major types, some of which we know a great deal about and others very little.
The Vermont coinage began in 1785 while Vermont was still a Republic. The first coins, displaying the Vermont landscape, are highly desirable. The combination of a Vermont obverse with an IMMUNE COLUMBIA reverse is another much sought-after variety. The BRITANNIA coins were a great attempt to mimic the circulating British coins and they traveled all across the colonies, into Canada and the Caribbean.
Many of the varieties of these Vermont coppers are extremely rare. Even for those with a great deal of patience and with deep pockets, the prospects of completing a set of all of the major types is fairly slim as some coins are nearly impossible to find for sale.
Finally, Vermont Copper coins circulated heavily and for many years, so finding more than one high-grade example on an unblemished planchet is quite difficult.
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