Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . th two or perhaps three exceptions, al-though the fictitious value of the latter wouldnot reach half the price of the former—condi-tions and sharpness of pieces being equal. J. , the late numismatic expert (whosecabinet of American coins before his great lossby robbery was not excelled in value, or condi- RARE AMERICAN COINS. tion, in the United States) spent nearly a life-time in the search for a good 1799 copper Mickleys object at first was to secure acent of the date of his birth, as a pocket
Rare American coins: their description, and past and present fictitious values . th two or perhaps three exceptions, al-though the fictitious value of the latter wouldnot reach half the price of the former—condi-tions and sharpness of pieces being equal. J. , the late numismatic expert (whosecabinet of American coins before his great lossby robbery was not excelled in value, or condi- RARE AMERICAN COINS. tion, in the United States) spent nearly a life-time in the search for a good 1799 copper Mickleys object at first was to secure acent of the date of his birth, as a pocket piece,and he often told us that he secured every otherdate of the cent series before he obtained thelong-sought-for date, 1799, and this simple ob- ject in Mr. Mickleys life led up to the formationof one of the grandest cabinets of American coinsknown at the time of his great loss by burglarsin the year 1867, and gave to American Numis-matic History, one of the best of contributors,whose decease numismatists of two hemispheresconstantly deplore. NEW ENGLAND SILVER THE NEW ENGLAND SIXPENCE. The earliest known coinage for New Englanddates back to 1652. The Massachusetts GeneralCourt passed an act on the 27th of May in theabove year, which established a mint in Boston ;this being the first mint ever put in operation inthe United States. John Hull of Boston, wasappointed mint master, and the act aforesaidrequired three silver pieces to be coined, viz: —Twelvepence, sixpence and threepence; theobverse sides to bear the script capitals, N. E.,while upon the reverses of the pieces shouldappear the Roman numerals, XII., VI., III. Theillustration of the sixpence above exhibitsthe appearance of each coin, the only differencebeing the denomination. In order to supply thebullion necessary to this coinage, the mint wasordered to receive Bullion plate, or SpanishCoin, for assay and refining, and the depositorof the same was allowed to witness the processof refining, assaying a
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