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Today I'm going to give you some excerpts as introduction to a study of 199 dug pistareens published under the title When Cross Pistareens Cut Their Way Through the Tobacco Colonies, by Thomas Kays (2001).
The report consists of 31 pages of detail about metal detected coins (pistareens) found in the area of the United States that the author refers to as the Tobacco Colonies.
The study was published in The Colonial Newsletter ((99+) THE COLONIAL NEWSLETTER When Cross Pistareens Cut Their Way Through the Tobacco Colonies | Bill Snyder - Academia.edu). I've mentioned this study before, but since I've been talking about a Treasure Coast cut coin lately, thought it would be a good time to take a look at some things that might be more or less related to that cut piece. In any case, there is a lot of very good information in this study, including much of the history of coinage used in early America including Spanish Colonial coinage and Spanish treasure shipping.
I'll post a few excerpts from the paper. I think you'll want to readd the entire document. The paper is very detailed and not a quick read. You may want to study it in multiple sessions and keep it as a good reference.
Here is the first excerpt I'll present.
The excerpts inserted in this post don't always begin or end at the beginning or end of a sentence. You can skip incomplete sentences at the beginning or end of each excerpt.
In the following excerpt, I found the part about money belts very interesting.
The next excerpt is a chart giving the proper values and weights of various items commonly used for transactions.
Making small change was a challenge before a standard currency.
And now some interesting statistics from the study.
Below is a chart showing the dates of the dug 100 coins.
The greats number of coins were dated around 1721. Then there were a lot dated around 1740, That is shown by the pink or light purple line.
Below is another brief excerpt.
If you have much interest in numismatics or dug coins, I recommend that you work your way through this detailed study.
Thank you to the detectorists that dug up all those pistareens and Thomas Kays who did the study. It is hard to find really good research on the internet without paying a lot of money.
I'll leave you some time to do some reading.
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As you see, the surf is expected to get just a little bigger. The nice high tides continue.