Review

So now, with just a quick scan of the:

• Abstract

• Author

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• Acknowledgements/Notes

• Journal information

• Figures

• References

We already know…

• This article explores counterfeit coin and the proliferation of its' trade in the later eighteenth century Caribbean.

• Dr. Katherine Smoak (Radburn) is a scholar of early America and the British Atlantic world.

• She earned her PhD in History from Johns Hopkins University.

• She is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham.

• The William & Mary Quarterly is a journal of early American history with a broad geographical and methodological scope.

• The figures illustrate the material elements of counterfeit coins and how that related to their use.

• Dr. Smoak conducted research at the American Numismatic Society and the American Antiquarian Society, was awarded fellowships for her research, and presented this work to a range of other scholars early American history.