Julia Casey writes:

A gentleman who came home in the William, Capt. Moore, from Boston, says, that the people of America, being in want of change since the coining of the paper currency, used frequently todivide the dollar notes into halves, and again in quarters and eighths, to answer the purposes of smaller payments, which having been productive of frauds and inconveniences, the Congress, to remedythe same, have coined a great quantity of copper tokens in every province, which bear the arms of the colony where they are struck, and are to pass for half dollars, quarters, eighths and sixteenths,agreeably to the stamps upon them, a quantity of copper having been imported at Philadelphia in a Dutch ship for that purpose, which has been distributed to the other provinces, eighteen hundredweight having been sent to Boston, where they had already begun to stamp the several pieces allowed and approved of by the Congress, but they were miserably executed; their size corresponds with thepiece in silver which they are intended to pass for. Before they got the copper they had it in idea to have made them of pewter, but on consideration, they remembered it would encourage the trade ofthe mother country, and it was therefore on that account set aside.

Julia adds:

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