Colonials
Colonial coins are coins that circulated in North America during the colonial period before the establishment of the US Mint in 1792. Because of their diverse places of origin, colonial coins are incredibly varied and, as a result, prized by collectors. This tremendous variety is also attributable to the length of the Colonial era and the many different periods of which it was comprised. In the years following the discovery of the Americas by European explores, most coins used on the continent were imported from other parts of the world. In the mid-to-late colonial period, when individual colonies began minting their own specie, coins unique to different regions of America began to crop up. Finally, in the years following the Revolutionary War, the new American government established in the Articles of Confederation, started to mint pieces with the intention of created a new American system of coinage.