This page presents brief descriptions and links to numismatic sites based on materials housed in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame. The sites currently featured include 'Coins of Colonial and Early America' and 'Colonial Currency' as well as 'Washington Tokens'.

An exhibit featuring hundreds of examples of colonial paper currency with supplementary sections on colonial lottery tickets and fiscal documents. Currency examples range from the 1720 Louisiana issues to the fractional currency privately emitted in the 1790's during the copper panic.

Volume Thirty-Four 1992 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Colonial Currency, Prices, and Exchange Rates Leslie V. Brock Professor Emeritus of History, College of Idaho with Introductory Comments by Ron Michener, Associate Professor Department of Economics, University of Virginia The following article, The Colonial Currency, ...

Table of Contents Explanatory Essays The Comparative Value of Money between Britain and the Colonies When the English colonists arrived in America they naturally continued to use the monetary units of Britain, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which #1 equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. This appeared to be a simple transplantation of economic units, but due to British colonial policy the ...