Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . NOVA CONSTELLATIO COINS. There has long been a mystery surrounding theNova Constellatio pieces of 1783 and 85;some authorities attribute them to American or-gin and others to foreign. Be that as it may,there are varieties enough of these quaint andinteresting copper and silver pieces handeddown from generation to generation, to enlistthe numismatists closest attention. Whetheras State, local, or government coins we viewthem, there is plenty of evidence in the multi-plicity of examples, that these coins passed cur-
Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . NOVA CONSTELLATIO COINS. There has long been a mystery surrounding theNova Constellatio pieces of 1783 and 85;some authorities attribute them to American or-gin and others to foreign. Be that as it may,there are varieties enough of these quaint andinteresting copper and silver pieces handeddown from generation to generation, to enlistthe numismatists closest attention. Whetheras State, local, or government coins we viewthem, there is plenty of evidence in the multi-plicity of examples, that these coins passed cur-rent in the latter years of the last century, andcame to collectors of the present time, as addi-tions to their American Colonial and Stateissues. The excessively rare types of these curiouscoins, such as the silver pieces of 1785, are ofgreat fictitious value, and of limited issue. TheConfederatios and a number of the Vermontpieces have reverses somewhat similar to thoseof the Constellatio. In the illustrations we present one type show-ing the reverse of the Nova Constellati
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