In January 2004 I started a survey to determine how widespread the distribution of New Jersey Colonial coins was during the time they circulated.
Attached is a letter explaining what information I am looking for in this distribution study.
My report will be submitted to the Colonial Coin Collectors Club for publication in their quarterly newsletter and hopefully the data can be useful to someone in the future if needed.
So far, I have received responses from many states and even one from Canada. Hopefully I will receive more input from finds of NJ coins from states that have not reported any being found and the ones where only one has been reported found. When the survey is completed I will e-mail a final copy to all who have participated in this survey.
I hope to receive enough data within the next few months to finalize the report by this fall. However, to those who have already sent me data, if you have found more, please send the information to me for update and I plan on continuing to add to the survey even once it is complete, since I realize we all will continue to find new coins in the future.
As of today 19 May 2005, I have 178 New Jersey Colonials in the survey. The vast majority are from New Jersey but that is only logical. Please help in this study and it does not matter if they were found with a detector or found while digging a privy, the main point is to determine the distribution of the ones that circulated, regardless of how they were recovered..
Here is the current breakdown by state, but my final report will be mapped by county and state.
Remember, this is also a chance to find out the variety you found if the pictures are good enough for me to attribute the variety, definitely need photos of BOTH sides to determine the variety.
NJ 135
PA 13
CT 12
NY 6
VA 2
KY 2
ONTARIO 1
TN 1
SC 1
ME 1
RI 1
MA 1
DE 1
NH 1
MD 0
NC 0
GA 0
AL 0
OH 0
TOTAL 178
Please ask any of your friends also whom might not follow the forums and if you belong to a club, please ask fellow members, I know there are a lot more found NJ coins out there and really would appreciate the data for this survey.
Thanks,
Don Hartman
slospokes2@comcast.net
Attached is a letter explaining what information I am looking for in this distribution study.
My report will be submitted to the Colonial Coin Collectors Club for publication in their quarterly newsletter and hopefully the data can be useful to someone in the future if needed.
So far, I have received responses from many states and even one from Canada. Hopefully I will receive more input from finds of NJ coins from states that have not reported any being found and the ones where only one has been reported found. When the survey is completed I will e-mail a final copy to all who have participated in this survey.
I hope to receive enough data within the next few months to finalize the report by this fall. However, to those who have already sent me data, if you have found more, please send the information to me for update and I plan on continuing to add to the survey even once it is complete, since I realize we all will continue to find new coins in the future.
As of today 19 May 2005, I have 178 New Jersey Colonials in the survey. The vast majority are from New Jersey but that is only logical. Please help in this study and it does not matter if they were found with a detector or found while digging a privy, the main point is to determine the distribution of the ones that circulated, regardless of how they were recovered..
Here is the current breakdown by state, but my final report will be mapped by county and state.
Remember, this is also a chance to find out the variety you found if the pictures are good enough for me to attribute the variety, definitely need photos of BOTH sides to determine the variety.
NJ 135
PA 13
CT 12
NY 6
VA 2
KY 2
ONTARIO 1
TN 1
SC 1
ME 1
RI 1
MA 1
DE 1
NH 1
MD 0
NC 0
GA 0
AL 0
OH 0
TOTAL 178
Please ask any of your friends also whom might not follow the forums and if you belong to a club, please ask fellow members, I know there are a lot more found NJ coins out there and really would appreciate the data for this survey.
Thanks,
Don Hartman
slospokes2@comcast.net
