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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1479773, member: 12789&quot;]Probably my most recent numismatic acquisition from an auction a few months ago:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/usa/rosaamericanapenny1723.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have owned a well beaten tuppence for over 20 years.&nbsp; But I wanted a nice representative example of this coinage that was created specifically for the American colonies.&nbsp; This is a penny that was minted by William Wood in Bath metal, a composition of bronze and a trace amount of silver.&nbsp; Curiously this is actually a prototype piece that was only minted in small numbers - there are 24 pellets in the centre of the rose, whereas most known varieties only have 16 pellets.&nbsp; These, along with the Woods Hibernia coinage, were not popular and really didn&#039;t see circulation in most of the colonies - legislation had even been passed in Massachusetts prohibiting their usage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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