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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3575459, member: 101855&quot;]Here is an example of actual piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]953283[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]953284[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These are call the large planchet Pine Tree Shillings. They were struck in Boston, Massachusetts from 1667 to 1674. The Massachusetts General Court, which was the name for the colonial legislature authorized these pieces in 1652.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of these coins that have dates, except for the two pence, are dated 1652. The date was used either to fool the British into thinking that they were all made when there was no King of England (Cromwell was acting as a Lost Protector), or it was a series date that indicated when the coins were authoriazed. The two pence, which was authorized in 1662, has that date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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