Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values (1887)
Mason, E. Locke. [from old catalog] · Boston, P. Gassett · leaf 10
is birth, as a pocket piece,and he often told us that he secured every otherdate of the cent series before he obtained thelong-sought-for date, 1799, and this simple ob- ject in Mr. Mickleys life led up to the formationof one of the grandest cabinets of American coinsknown at the time of his great… … THE NEW ENGLAND SIXPENCE. The earliest known coinage for New Englanddates back to 1652. The Massachusetts GeneralCourt passed an act on the 27th of May in theabove year, which established a mint in Boston ;this being the first mint ever put in operation inthe United States. John Hull of Boston,…
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