Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values (1887)
Mason, E. Locke. [from old catalog] · Boston, P. Gassett · leaf 26
VIRGINIA COINAGE. Although it is claimed that the earliest Ameri-can or colonial State coin was the SommerIslands shilling, and circulated in Virginiaabout 1612, thus ante-dating the Massachusettsshilling fifty years, yet the Sommer Islandswere in Bermuda, where, in 1609, Sir GeorgeSommers was…
Numismatics
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