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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KBBPLL, post: 8070977, member: 104064&quot;]Actually, there is an enormous amount of research done on these, since it was the first mint in what would become the US. For a mind-numbing example, go through &quot;Studies on John Hull, the Mint and the Economics of Massachusetts Coinage&quot; <a href="https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/MAMintDocs.studies.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/MAMintDocs.studies.html" rel="nofollow">https://coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/MAMintDocs.studies.html</a>. I agree that it doesn&#039;t help authenticate a specific coin though. And once these got collector interest, and images were published, they were counterfeited. Wyatt copies from the 1850s were based on this plate in an 1839 book - the horizontal lines in the plates were meant to designate blank space, but Wyatt put the lines on the coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1400069[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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