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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3653138, member: 101855&quot;]Chances are they didn&#039;t have much of any kind of currency when they came to Maine in 1635. They didn&#039;t have any paper money because Massachusetts introduced that the western world in 1690.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wampum was something they might have used. Maine was a part of Massachusetts at that time. The Massachusetts General Court, which was the ruling body, made wampum into money for a time. Here is some. Blue beads were scarcer and worth twice as much as white beads.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]981614[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]981615[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If they brought any coins with them, they might been from their home country or they could have been Spanish Empire pieces which were becoming a world currency at that time. Here is a Lima 2 reales circa 1580.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]981616[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]981617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;Here are couple of British coins, an Elizabeth I six pence and a Charles I six pence.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]981618[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]981619[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]981620[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]981621[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have some gold coins, but there is little chance that they had any of those. Gold was for rich merchants and royalty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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