New England Silver Coins
Base
About This Coin
Representing the earliest silver coins struck in British North America, the New England silver pieces of 1652 mark the Massachusetts Bay Colony's assertion of monetary sovereignty in defiance of English law that reserved coinage rights exclusively to the Crown. The NE pieces were the first coins of the Boston mint that the Massachusetts General Court set up in 1652 under John Hull and Robert Sanderson. Their only design is the letters NE punched on one side and the value in Roman numerals on the other. Noe placed the whole issue between June 11 and October 19, 1652, when the court ordered a new design with a tree and rings of beads to make clipping easy to see. The shilling standard was 72 grains of silver of sterling fineness.
Specifications
Strike Types & Varieties(3)
(1652) New England Shilling
(1652) New England Sixpence
(1652) New England Threepence
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