Author: Julie Casey

Julia Casey is an award-winning numismatic researcher and author from Saratoga County, NY. She specializes in the history of colonial and early American coinage and currency, with a particular affinity for the murky worlds of coiners and counterfeiters. She is part of the editorial teams for the Journal of Early American Numismatics, published by the American Numismatic Society, and the C4 Newsletter of the Colonial Coin Collectors Club.

Historical Spotlight Posted on July 13, 2026July 13, 2026

The Ordeal of the Annapolis, September 1775

To a colonial American, the prelude to the War of Independence might have been considered as much a civil conflict as it was a revolution. This was particularly true in 1775, when the thirteen colonies were in the throes of an internal struggle, before most of the Loyalists sought refuge in cities occupied by British […]

by Julie Casey