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The pine tree shilling was a type of coin minted and circulated in the Thirteen Colonies. In 1652, the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorized Boston silversmiths...

20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Initially, sterling coin and foreign currencies circulated in Massachusetts, supplemented by pine tree shillings produced...

The Pine Tree Flag (or the An Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution. The flag, which featured a pine tree with...

pine tree in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pine trees are coniferous trees in the genus Pinus. Pine tree or pinetree may also refer to: Pine Tree (album)...

The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing...

pounds, shillings, and pence used as the standard units of account. Some coins were minted in the colonies, such as the pine tree shilling in the Massachusetts...

the colony (the willow, the oak, and the pine tree shilling) in 1652. Because few coins were minted in the Thirteen Colonies, which later became the United...

The numismatic history of the United States began with Colonial coins such as the pine tree shilling and paper money; most notably the foreign but widely...

same mark, as the pine tree shilling the fourth and most famous of the earliest American coins, from the New England era. In 1958 the Tuttle Silver Company...

from the age of seven and was trained in the Hull and Sanderson mint on Summer Street (Boston) as a goldsmith producing the pine tree shilling. Hull...

represent the region in its history. While there are some variations, common designs include a plain colored field (usually red) with a pine tree in the canton...

shortage prompted the colony to authorize silversmith John Hull to issue coinage, now known as the oak tree, willow tree, and pine tree shillings. Political...

means of appeasement for his anger over their local coining of the pine tree shilling minted by John Hull.[citation needed] In 1669, Captain Richard Cobb...

Boston before becoming the moneyer responsible for issuing the colony's pine tree shillings in the mid-17th century. Hull was also a successful merchant and...

rims, was meant to evoke the colonial coinage of Massachusetts, of which Maine was long a part, such as the pine tree shilling. "It is said that concerning...

2015. Its contents include newspapers pages of the period, and coins including a 1652 pine tree shilling. There was also a silver plate, probably engraved...

" The coin hoard was later found to contain coins from Spain, and included a large quantity of Spanish Cobbs. Also found were pine tree shilling's dating...

ensued a long discussion between the king and Temple on the pine tree shilling minted by John Hull in the "Hull Mint". The first trading post at present-day...

According to tradition, Jenckes cut dies for the first coins minted in North America, such as the pine tree shilling. While there is no direct evidence for...

some years afterwards Treasurer of the Province, and the contractor for the coinage of the celebrated pine-tree shillings. In 1650, Mrs. Joanna Quinsey died;...