Watch List notes:

THE MASSACHUSETTS CENTINEL. Boston, Wednesday, September 5, 1787. Vol. VII, No. 49. Tabloid [37 by 24.5 cm] 4 pages. Removed from previous binding. Very good. An article titled, simply, "Coppers," reads as follows: "The universal perplexity that pervades the community respecting the copper coin, at present in circulation, calls for attention from some quarter or other. Were people ascertained as to the final fate of this money they could take their measures accordingly-but while the matter hangs in suspence, the simple, honest and unwary are made extremely unhappy, and often become the prey of sharpers.-From the foregoing, the publick are entitled to a just solution of the following enquiries: 1st. When a new coinage may be expected. 2d. Whether the coppers, so called, now in circulation, that are not made of base metal, are to be called in as coin, or as old copper. 3d. If the contract for coinage is a private one, and the contractor is not obliged to receive the old coppers as coin, who are to indemnify the unfortunate holders of the coppers in circulation." Ex Syd Martin Library.