Growing up
I was a stamp collector. I spent many
many hours trying to find inexpensive stamps from around the world for my
albums. They were a great way to learn
geography and about changing geopolitical lines.
Coins and currency became a part of my consciousness
when I heard a talk several years ago about all the different currencies that
were used before the Federal Reserve was created and “a” currency resulted. It was one of the best talks I’d ever heard
in terms of truly being eye-opening about an element of historical context that
I previously just had no awareness of.
The talk was reinforced as I did more and more land
research and found deeds where Spanish milled dollars, current money,
specie, Virginia currency and many more different types of currency were used
in these land transactions.
Basically, it really opened my eyes to the idea of
not assuming that just because we have “a” currency (of course, Bitcoin and
other purveyors of digital currency are working to change the landscape and
that’s a topic for another day), that doesn’t mean it was always that way.
In a sweeping effort to make its older and out-of-print publications
available to the public as Open Access, The American Numismatic Society has
partnered with HathiTrust (http://www.hathitrust.org/about). As a result of this partnership scans of nearly 550 ANS titles –
including the American Journal of Numismatics, Numismatic Literature,
Numismatic Notes and Monographs, and stand-alone monographs have become fully
readable and downloadable to anyone who wants them under a Creative Commons,
non-commercial, attribution, share-alike license.
In fact, a search on colonial currency and related
terms brings up quite a few resources.
Did any particular article or publication regarding Numismatics catch
your eye?
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