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2014 North American
Coins & Prices
A GUIDE TO U.S., CANADIAN AND MEXICAN COINS
23RD EDITION
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David C. Harper, Editor
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Harry
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The World’s Best-Selling Coin Books
Coins & Prices
A GUIDE TO U.S., CANADIAN AND MEXICAN COINS
23RD EDITION
2014 North American
David C. Harper, Editor
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Harry Miller, George Cuhaj & Thomas Michael, Market Analysts
The World’s Best-Selling Coin Books
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4402-3799-7
ISBN-10: 1-4402-3799-9
Cover Design by Jana Tappa
Designed by Sandi Carpenter
Edited by George Cuhaj
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Chapter 1: "A Small Beginning" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Chapter 2: The Grading Factor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Chapter 3: Get a Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Chapter 4: American Eagles Fly High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
Introduction to Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
U.S. Minting Varieties and Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
UNITED STATES
Colonial Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Early American Tokens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78, 93
Royal Patent Coinage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Revolutionary Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
State Coinage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Early American Patterns,
Early Federal Coinage & Issues of 1792. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
United States Circulation Issues, 1793-present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
50 State Quarters & America the Beautiful Quarters . . . . . . . . . . .163
Sets and Rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .233
US Commemoratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238
US Silver, Gold and Platinum Bullion Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274
CANADA
Issues of the Confederation 1858-present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
New Brunswick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .463
Newfoundland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .466
Nova Scotia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .473
Prince Edward Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
MEXICO
Spanish Colonial Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .477
War of Independence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .510
Empire of Iturbide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .546
First Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .549
Empire of Maximilian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .593
Second Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .595
Estados Unidos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .619
Revolution Era Coinage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .693
1
“A Small Beginning”
The U.S. Mint grew from a modest start
By Robert R. Van Ryzin
It was a “small beginning” but a significant one. In July 1792, a site for the
new U.S. Mint not yet having been secured, 1,500 silver half dismes were struck
on a small screw press nestled in the cellar of a Philadelphia building owned by
sawmaker John Harper. Though some have since categorized these early emis-
sions of the fledgling U.S. Mint as patterns, it is clear that first President George
Washington – who is said to have deposited the silver from which the coins were
struck – considered this small batch of half dismes the first official U.S. coins.
It is true that this limited coinage, the first since passage of the act establish-
ing the Mint on April 2, 1792, pales by comparison to modern U.S. Mint presses.
Today’s machines can churn out up to 750 coins a minute, striking as many as
four coins at a time and boasting yearly mintages in the billions. But it is also true
that these first small pieces – struck from silver and stamped with a plump Liberty
on the obverse and a scrawny eagle in flight on the reverse – have tremendous
historical importance.
For within what Washington would declare in his 1792 address to Congress
as a “small beginning” were the seeds of a monetary system that has lasted more
than 200 years and has become the study and admiration of many.
Before the U.S. Mint
Collectors today can trace much of the nation’s development and learn of its
struggles and growth through its coinage: from a cumbersome system first proposed
by Robert Morris, a Revolutionary War financier and first superintendent of finance,
to the refinements tendered by Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, which
firmly placed the nation on an easily understood decimal system of coinage.

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