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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1683412, member: 42773&quot;]It&#039;s an unprovable theory, but it makes sense. The coinage was authorized of course, but NOT by the crown - by Bostonians! There was no king at the time, and the colonists desperately needed coinage, so they took the matter into their own hands. Nobody knew what the outcome in England could be at any given moment, so repeating the date could have been a clever ploy to avoid confrontation with the British crown, if it were suddenly reinstated. If it ever came to that, the colonists could have said, &quot;Hey, we made these in 1652. Where were you?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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