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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CheetahCats, post: 887193, member: 23874&quot;]Connecticut will be very tough - I&#039;d say impossible.. too many different private mints involved.&nbsp; Connecticut was a &#039;free for all&#039;, authorized or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rosa Americana - Breen&#039;s indicates 100 tons were authorized @ 30 twopence = 60 pence = 120 halfpence to the pound.&nbsp; Though numbers published for specimen weights don&#039;t match this... It is surmised that Wood skimped on weight and actually minted &#039;light&#039;; hence perhaps more may have been minted.&nbsp; (There was a bit of Tom Foolery going on with respect to his patent too - King George&#039;s mistress decided she wanted to be in the game, and Wood had to grease her Royal palms to make his warrant actually happen.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Massachusetts - Whitman&#039;s indicates $2500 in both Massachusetts cents and half cents were reported as minted (at that time).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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