Prologue: Newfoundland's different coinage history -- Chapter 1. A brief history of Newfoundland. Natural history -- Political history -- Native settlement -- European settlement -- Colonizing Newfoundland -- The economy in late-nineteenth-century Newfoundland -- Growing inequality -- The drive for confederation with Canada -- Chapter 2. A snapshot of Newfoundland in 1865. Population -- Salaries -- Coinage -- Duties, revenues, and expenditures -- Newspapers -- Chapter 3. An act for the regulation of the currency -- Chapter 4. Circulation strike Newfoundland $2 gold coins -- The coinage of 1865 -- The coinage of 1870 -- The coinage of 1873- The coinage of 1880 -- The coinage of 1881 -- The coinage of 1882 -- The coinage of 1885 -- The Currency Act of 1887: Possible evidence of bank fraud -- The mysterious 1890 Newfoundland $2 gold coins -- Chapter 5. Extant populations of Newfoundland gold coins -- Chapter 6. Specimens and patterns -- Specimens -- Patterns -- Chapter 7. Great auctions and collections of Newfoundland gold coins. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -- National currency collection of the Bank of Canada -- Belzberg collection -- Virgil Brand collection -- British Museum -- Caldecott collection -- Carter collection -- Eliasberg collection -- Ellis collection -- Frontenac collection -- Kingston collection -- Melbourne collection -- Montagu collection -- Murdoch collection -- New Netherlands sale, September 22-23, 1964 -- Collection formed by a nobleman, recently deceased -- Norweb collection -- Perth collection -- Pittman collection -- The Rooms -- Royal Ming collection -- Recent auctions -- Chapter 8. Hoards of Newfoundland $2 coins -- Epilogue.