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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2758765, member: 12789&quot;]A curious feature of the Commonwealth coinage is that it marked the first and until the 20th century, only time that the English language appeared on coinage because Latin was considered too Papist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another coinage series, this time in North America, was necessitated and tolerated because of the English Civil War.&nbsp; Massachusetts Bay coined it&#039;s own coinage under the premise that back in the home country they were too concerned with all the political strife to interfere in N. America&#039;s first coinage.&nbsp; Which is why with the exception of the 1662 tuppence that all the coinage is dated 1652 even though the Pine Tree coins were struck until 1682.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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