John Coney (5 January 1655 - 20 August 1722) was an early American silversmith and goldsmith from Boston, Massachusetts. He specialised in engraving. From the 1690s on, Coney was considered the most important Bostonian silversmith of his day. In 1702, he engraved the paper money for Massachusetts.
John Coney was the apprentice of and lather brother-in-law to Jeremiah Dummer, the first American-born silversmith. He married Mary Atwater, sister of Dummer's wife, in 1694. They were widower and widow, Coney was married twice before. He had twelve children in total, but only five daughters survived beyond infancy.
His last apprentice, from 1716 until the time of Coney's death, was , father of Paul Revere, and his indirect influence on Revere was considerable. Other apprentices included the brothers Samuel (1684-1713) and John (1692-1720) Gray, early silversmiths from Connecticut, and John Burt.
Many examples of his work, including a sugar box and two chocolate boxes, are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A silver plate by Coney was sold for $324,750 at Sotheby's in New York in 2002.
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