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New England Shilling Copy
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| Weight | 8.4 g |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unadorned field devoid of peripheral legend or decorative motif. At the center of the flan, the Roman numeral XII — denoting the denomination of twelve pence — is struck in raised characters within a shallow incuse rectangular punch, directly replicating the mark-of-value device employed on the original 1652 New England Shilling. The field is flat and entirely plain, characteristic of the austere design philosophy of early Massachusetts colonial coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The original New England shillings of 1652 were among the first coins struck in British North America, produced at Boston under John Hull's mint authority despite having no explicit authorization from the Crown. They were pulled from production almost immediately — their plain design made them trivially easy to clip, shaving silver from the edges without detection. The NE shillings circulated for a matter of months before being replaced by the Willow Tree series.
This is a copy. Genuine examples are extraordinarily rare and essentially confined to institutional collections.