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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 26653994, member: 12789&quot;]As noted above the Wood&#039;s Hibernia pieces were not popular in Ireland and thence they were sent over to those narsty fiends in N. America where again they were viewed as undervalued and several of the colonies, notably Massachusetts-Bay and New Jersey attempted to ban them.&nbsp; Massachusetts-Bay went so far as to introduce small change notes in the value of a penny, tuppence and threepence to drive the coins out of circulation.[ATTACH=full]1700480[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one I have owned since I was a kid - paid way to much for it when I bought it.&nbsp; Lesson learnt.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Inasmuch as Britain even treated it&#039;s own non-aristocratic commoners as unworthy of reliable coinage they treated their far flung possessions of Ireland and N. America as even more unworthy.&nbsp; In fact money and the issuance of money - particularly paper money was a sore spot with the authorities in London - which they believed was solely the prerogative of the crown.&nbsp; It explains why the colonists issued the silver coinage in the Massachusetts-Bay colony beginning in 1652 until 1682 with a frozen date of 1652 suggesting it was minted during the English Civil War.</p><p><br /></p><p>William Wood was also involved in a scheme to mint coinage for the American colonies, the reception of the coinage was similar to that of the Irish halfpenny debacle - failure.[ATTACH=full]1700483[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The example above is actually a circulated pattern coin I picked up at auction a few years ago - it is a pattern coin because of the fifteen pellets in the centre of the rose.&nbsp; These coins were struck in &quot;bath&quot; metal, a copper, tin and trace amount of silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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