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description: This book is dedicated to my late friend Bill Anton who has helped this collector throughout his collecting endeavors in the world of contemporary (circulating) counterfeit collecting. I first met Bill during my early days of collecting New Jersey State Coppers. Bill did live close by to me so we did see each other often and did discuss various topics of colonial coin collecting. This eventually led of course to the collecting of contemporary circulating counterfeits. Since the initial book on the Forgotten Coins of the North American Colonies was published in 1992 by Krause Publications there has been much advancement of these contemporary counterfeits by American &amp; Foreign collectors. This book is not so much a research exercise into new areas of contemporary counterfeit collecting but a tribute to an individual who started many people in collecting these coins when at this time in 1992 few if any collectors thought of collecting contemporary counterfeits. Today most collectors of any advanced collecting interest have associated contemporary counterfeits in their collection. Today if I do meet a collector with no contemporary counterfeits in their collection I do question how advanced this collector is or putting it more plainly his breadth of knowledge in his field of collecting. Contemporary Counterfeits sort of rounds out the collector in his collecting pursuits and distinguishes him from just being as Bill always indicated a simple minded accumulator. The purpose of this book will be to discuss certain areas that the author is familiar with and to bring this information to its current level of understanding. A good definition is a definition we used within the Counterfeit Eight Reales book released in September 2014 by Amazon Books. A Contemporary Counterfeit is defined as a spurious coin made to circulate alongside originals in day to day commerce at the same value regardless of face value or design type. See the Definitions section within this book. Specifically the author will discuss the Canadian Blacksmiths Spanish/American counterfeits (i.e. Kleeberg Two Reales and the Gurney/Nichols/Lorenzo Eight Reales) English and Irish Halfpence/Farthing contemporary counterfeits principally sold in the Stacks 2008 Michael Ringo Collection and other brief treatments of counterfeits mentioned in the Forgotten Book. The reason I use the word brief as it may take two or three volumes to address all these advancements. Most of the advancements are seen for the U.S. Colonial issues in the American Numismatic Societys Colonial Newsletter in which the serious student is urged to join the ANS and subscribe to the Colonial Newsletter. The book will also address all the Anton-Kesse Plate coins in the book and bring their cataloging into modern thinking such as incorporating certain pieces into now accepted counterfeit families such as the Long-Neck Family of counterfeit British Halfpence. Much of these writings of these new contemporary counterfeit Families as previously alluded to has been published through the Colonial Newsletter which is now overseen by the American Numismatic Society. It was B. Weston of Pennsylvania who initially coined the phrase linked fingerprints which establishes relationships between similar contemporary counterfeits having the same dies and who also linked the British Halfpence counterfeits to another series called the Evasions addressed first by Atkins in the late 19th Century and then further advanced by Cobwright. C. Schettino was also instrumental in initially naming these contemporary counterfeit collectors call today as the study of these Families which have similar die characteristics or motifs in the obverse/reverse legends.
language: English
title: Forgotten Coins of the North American Colonies - 25th Anniversary Edition
publisher: None