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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 25532571, member: 104064"]I guess I should have said "currently" known. The Yale coin has been missing for 70+ years. The connection to John Adams is interesting but tenuous of course. There could also be a connection to John Quincy Adams, who was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands in 1794. The source of the speculation about provenance is the holder the coin was found in. The Quincy family was quite large by 1798, and it's curious that whomever wrote that on the holder did not specify John or John Quincy, despite them both being quite well known by the time the holder was designated. It's also curious that it was "unknown" for 222 years, despite Thomas Hollis actively seeking the NE threepence, and several sales of them in 1838-1844 in England. John and John Quincy both did have an extensive coin collection. [ATTACH=full]1635463[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]