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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2602110, member: 12789&quot;]<b>Rosa Americana Pattern Penny 1723</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/rosaamericanapenny1723_zpsyzcfgpo8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>This penny is one of William Wood&#039;s creations from the patent granted to strike coin for the American colonies in 1722.&nbsp; Curiously this one is a pattern piece that was not used for the circulation strikes - the pellets in the centre of the rose are the giveaway - but somehow the piece did see circulation though not for long as these pieces were quite unpopular in the American colonies due to their diminutive size and perception of being cheated out of metal.&nbsp; Many of the colonies, notably Massachusetts-Bay, banned them outright and even circulated small change notes to drive them out of circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/georgeiihalfpenny1723_zpss2f4ueqb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>William Wood&#039;s patent for striking coinage also applied to Ireland, which saw it&#039;s own unique coinage in farthings and halfpennies - which quite unremarkably were received in a similar fashion to the Rosa Americana coins in the N. American colonies.&nbsp; Many of them were thus sent off to the American colonies where they were not anymore popular than the Rosa pieces but necessity outweighed vanity in some of the colonies so they circulated up until the very early 19th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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