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No. 2
A subset of The Colonial Newsletter
3 July 1995
Published by The Colonial Newsletter Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 4411
Huntsville, AL 35815, USA
Dear CNL Cyberspace Patrons (and Friends):
Our quote for the day:
from Jeff Rock; Rosa Americana, Ltd. San Diego, CA.
"I adamantly deny that I stole the coin!"
I suppose that by now most of our CNL Cyberspace Patrons know that coin dealer Jeff Rock of Rosa Americana, Ltd. was arrested on June 12, 1995 in Hartford, CT after he had voluntarily returned a 1737 Higley Copper that had been recognized as "stolen" from the Connecticut State Library collection in Hartford. Custodians claim that they were unaware of the coin being missing until it was brought to their attention.
Jeff was not arrested for stealing the coin; rather for "possession of stolen property" and his arrest came at a time after he had delivered the coin and had received a written receipt for it.
The next Court date on this matter is July 5th, 1995 unless an extension of time is granted. Jeff is back home in California but will return to the North East area for his scheduled appearance in Court.
Congratulations to Dan Freidus who has accepted the position of Editor for The C4 Newsletter replacing Mike Hodder who for personal business reasons resigned the position which he had held since the first issue was published in August, 1993. Our very best wishes to Dan to whom ye CNL Editor has offered both congratulations and condolences; we suspect that he will be accepting both.
The first C4 convention is scheduled for October 20-22 in Pennsauken, NJ. At least 20 volunteers are needed to make this first convention a success. Sponsors are also needed to help cover the initial expenses.
Contacts are:
Sponsors--Don Mituzas
Volunteers--Dennis Wierzba
Exhibits--Bijan Anvar
In addition, the Third NJ Copper Symposium will be held on Friday October 20, 1995 in conjunction with the C4 and MANA conventions. It will start promptly at 5:00pm and end around 10:00pm. This years theme is New Jersey Die States. Tom Madigan, author of a recent study of NJ Die States in Penny-Wise will be present, as well as John Griffee whose extensive collection of NJ State Coppers will be auctioned the following night. John has offered to attribute any St. Patrick's coinage that you may bring.
Regarding your request for news items, I am appending an info sheet regarding the new mail list "BiblioNumis-L". I hope that you will consider subscribing (free), and perhaps including a plug for it in your next issue of The Colonial Newsletter. More and more are becoming E-Mail enabled every day--as you well know!
Regards,
Harry Bass
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Owner: Harry Bass
CNL No. 99 was delivered in about five days by the U.S. Postal Service and has been well received. It generated a number of inquiries which have been forwarded to the various contributors for their information.
One article in CNL-99 which we did not mention in our previous CNL Online is a study by Roger A. Moore, MD of Moorestown, NJ with the lengthy title: Round and Round We Go - or - A "Medal Turn" New Jersey 17-K on a Rotated "Cointurn" Counterfeit GEORGIVS III Halfpence. For those interested in identifying undertypes, this has a lot of information to be digested. In his concluding paragraph Dr. Moore states "Hopefully this article will stimulate other owners of 17-K's to reevaluate their coins based on rotational patterns. . . I would greatly appreciate any feedback on the rotational orientations of the readership's 17-K's". Happy Hunting!! Roger Moore; 435 Camden Avenue; Moorestown, NJ
Dr.Moore's paper brings to mind a very early letter that we received from the late Walter Breen and which we published in the December 1963 issue of CNL (Sequential page 72):
from Walter Breen--Colonial Overstrikes
When my New Jersey ms returns I can give you a nearly complete rundown on known kinds of overstrikes bearing the NOVA CAESAREA legend. In the meantime let me give you what I can by memory for all Colonial series:
Oak Tree Sixpence. Noe 15 (Crosby 5-A), the unique Bushnell-Parmelee-Mills-Garrett coin, now in JHU, is overstruck on an old shilling. I have not seen the coin but worked from photographs. Genuineness doubted.
Noe 21 (C.1c-D)--one known overstruck on a clipped Oak Tree shilling of dies of Noe 14. This was formerly in possession of C.E. Bullowa. The alleged overstrike claimed for Noe 18 by Noe has proved to be merely another instance of clashed dies.
Vermont. Ryder 14: one seen overstruck on Nova Constellatio. Ryder 12: often overstruck on Nova Constellatio. R #18: sometimes overstruck on British or Irish halfpence. R #35, same reverse--always overstruck on Irish Halfpence. R #33, unique (H.H.Kurth collection) overstruck on ctft halfpenny of Geo.III. R #28, usually overstruck on Irish halfpence
Connecticuts --1788. M. 16.3-N exists overstruck on Mass. cents. One of these had for undertype a 1-B of 1787; New Netherlands 51st sale, #131, later Q. David Bowers. --1788. 3.1-B.1 all seen except Eliasberg's are overstruck on Nova Constellatios. 3.2-B.2, 4.1-B.1, 4.2-R, 5-B.2, 10-C and possibly others in this group usually overstruck on Novas as well.
New Jersey Rahway mint: I have seen a 46-e overstruck on a brockage of reverse e. Boyd coll.
N.J. Machin's Mills mint: 56-n, 57-n, 58-n. These come overstruck on almost everything in the book: tiny Spanish maravedies, French Sous, "George Clinton" coppers (unique F.C.C. Boyd), Vermonts, Connecticuts, halfpence, etc.
N.J. Elizabethtown mint: 17-J, 17-K late state, 17-b; 38-b, and the Plaited Mane group--40-b, 35-J, 35-W, 34-V, 34-J, 70-x, 71-y, 72-z, 73-aa. These come overstruck on almost everything in the book, too. First four varieties named usually are on halfpence or Connecticuts; the Plaited Manes are likely to occur on just about anything, one of the more strange ones being (if memory serves) 34-V on 35-J!
N.J. contemporaneous counterfeits: Maris "81" (?), "83" ill. in Guttag reprint--and "84" (Boyd coll., 2 known) on halfpence.
Massachusetts 1776 pattern cent, pictured in ANS 1914, ex Howland Wood: obv. nude Indian st'g left, shooting arrow. PROVINCE OF MASSA: Rev. St'g figure on globe, DEFENSOR LIBERTATIS 1776. Overstruck on 1747 Irish halfpenny.
Immunis Columbia, 1787. MHS has a specimen overstruck on a Jersey copper. Adams notebooks (now ANS) mention one with edge ornamented, which suggests overstriking on some foreign coin; edge devices were a luxury not encountered on Atlee coins.
A Safe and Happy July 4th to all!
That's it for this issue of CNL Online. Suggestions anyone? JCS
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