1839 - Domestic Packet Rate |
Colombian Doubloons |
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16 May 1839 Boston to New
York City, packet of letters weighing 43 ounces, prepaid $32.25 |
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| This packet enclosed letters from a Boston agent to a mail forwarder in New York timed to catch the departure of the Transatlantic Steam Ship Company steamer Liverpool. The enclosed letters were given to the steamer purser by Abraham Bell as freight money letters and a fee paid for carriage to England. An exceptionally high postal rate. |
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1790 - 8 escudos minted in Popayan, Colombia |
1793 - 8 escudos minted in Popayan, Colombia |
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| Gold doubloons of Colombia, a Spanish Dominion, were legal tender in the United States and circulated at the value of $16.25 each after the gold standard change of 1834. The 1790 example bears a portrait of Charles III, who had died in 1788, but here identified as Carol IV, while the 1793 example bears a portrait of Carlos IV identified as Carol IIII. | |
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Richard Frajola, May 2006 |
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