Please note: the Groves Forum and COAC are two
separate events, they must be reserved for separately.

The Groves Forum is free of charge.
COAC is $25 per person (lunch will be served)

For further information or to RSVP, contact Juliette
Pelletier at (212) 234-3130 ext. 230 or
pelletier@...



Groves Forum – Friday May 16, 2003
Harvard Club, 27 West 44th Street, New York
6:00pm cocktails
6:30 pm lectures

Graham Dyer. "The Royal Mint and North Carolina,
1754." The paper
will examine the response by the authorities in
London, and
particularly by the officers of the Royal Mint, to a
proposal in
1754 by the Governor of North Carolina for a coinage
of copper
halfpence, pence and twopences. An attempt
will be made through contemporary documentation to
place the response
in the context of Mint attitudes towards the coinage
of copper at
that time, both for Great Britain and for Ireland.

COAC – Saturday, May 17, 2003
Fraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl St., New York
10am - 3pm
$25 per person - lunch will be served

David T. Alexander. "Hessian 'Blood Money': the
History and the
Myth." The paper will explore the legendary
"bloodthalers," their
Hanoverian context, and the strange career of Rudolph
Erich Raspe in
the era of the Revolution.

Brian J. Danforth. "New Interpretations on Irish
Coppers in the
American Colonies: The St. Patrick, Wood's Hibernia
and Voce Populi
Series."
Based on original research conducted in Ireland,
England and America,
this paper presents a new perspective on selected
Irish coppers that
contributed to the circulating medium of colonial
America. The
highlights of the presentation shall include: the
minter and
production sequence of St. Patrick coppers, the
circulation of Wood's
Hibernia coinage in Ireland and the American colonies,
and the events
surrounding the issuance of the Voce Populi series.

Margi Hofer. "Recent Discoveries in the New York
Historical Society."
As a result of cataloguing in preparation for opening
a new study
center, displaying the vast majority of its permanent
collections
long held in storage, significant numismatic
discoveries have come to
light at the New York Historical Society. This
presentation will
focus on two groups of exciting finds: five very early
medals of the
Society of the
Cincinnati, and a pair of United States pattern
quarters from 1792.

John Kraljevich. "Annapolis Silver: The Coinage of
John Chalmers."
This will cover the currency context into which the
Chalmers coins
were issued, including archaeological finds of coins
in the
Chesapeake Bay region and contemporary paper money.
It will examine
the place of Annapolis in the nation in 1783, when it
was our first
peacetime capital, through a look at documents from
Washington and
Jefferson among others. Finally, it will include John
Chalmer's
biography and the specifics of the coins he issued.

Syd Martin. "The `Georgius Triumpho'/Danish West
Indies Mule." The
paper will examine the two newly discovered Georgius
Triumpho/DWI
mules in terms of (a) their physical characteristics
and (b) where
and when they were produced. This examination will
tie together a
number of loose ends with respect to an important
addition to
American colonial issues.

Kent Ponterio. "The First Coinage of the New World:
Coins of the
Mexico City Mint Struck during the Reign of Charles
and Johanna." The
paper will analyze recent discoveries in the sequences
of issues and
their assayers, based upon hoard study and original
documentation.



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