Issuing authority
British Colonial America
British North American colonies issuing local coinage and colonial paper currency.
- Kind
- colony
- Region
- Eastern seaboard, North America
- Recorded period
- 1607 – 1783
Succeeded by the United States of America.
Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.
Published entries
8
Individual types and documented families
With photographs
100%
8 with a credited real-object photo
Dated span
1652 – 1777
8 entries with their own date
Verified or well documented
0
Highest two confidence levels
Catalogue entries (8)
Filter these entries by era, material or confidenceSorted by date, earliest first.
National Museum Liverpool, Janny Baxter, 2010-01-28 18:19:45 via Wikimedia Commons
modern coins
Massachusetts silver coinage
1652 onwards
Massachusetts silver coinage comprises silver denominations of three pence, six pence, and one shilling struck in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Authorised under colonial legislation passed in 1652, the coins were produced by moneyers John Hull and Robert Sanderson at the Hull Mint. Struck to supplement sterling and…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Pine tree shilling from Massachusetts, 1652
1652
Silver coin. Obverse: pine tree within a circle of dots. As legend: Masathusets in. Reverse: within a circle of dots, year: 1652, beneath which is the value designation: XII [pence]. As legend: new England. An Dom. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-5149; its record gives material recorded as…
Partial type record
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
banknotes
20 Shillings, Massachusetts, 1690
1690-02-03
Museum specimen in the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection (NU.71.133.1), dated 1690-02-03, place made: United States: Massachusetts. Museum record — Object name in the museum record: note / paper money. Maker or mint: Massachusetts Bay Colony. Materials: paper (overall material); overall: 14.3 cm x 10.5 cm…
Partial type record
National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History via Wikimedia Commons
banknotes
British colonial American paper currency
Colonial period
British colonial American paper currency encompasses the paper money and fiat notes, historically termed bills of credit, issued by individual British North American colonies. Initiated by the Province of Massachusetts Bay in December 1690 to finance military operations during King William's War, paper currency was…
Partial type record
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
stamps
3p Massachusetts Colonial Issue embossed revenue stamped paper on document
May 1, 1755
3p Massachusetts Colonial Issue embossed revenue stamped paper on document — revenue stamp in the Smithsonian National Postal Museum collection (object 0.276929.1), catalogued by the museum as Scott USA RM3. Dated by the museum: May 1, 1755. Medium: paper; ink (black). Scott's RM numbers cover embossed revenue stam…
Partial type record
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
stamps
1d “America” Stamp Act newspaper revenue stamp proof
1765
Great Britain's victory in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) led to the complete defeat of France and Spain as colonial powers in North America. The peace treaty negotiated at Paris in 1763 resulted in France's loss of all her possessions in continental North America; Spain traded Florida for Havana, which had been co…
Partial type record
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
banknotes
4 Dollars, Continental Congress, 1775
1775
Museum specimen in the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection (NU.NU60937), dated 1775, place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Museum record — Object name in the museum record: note / Continental currency. Maker or mint: Continental Congress. Materials: paper (overall material); overall: 7.3 cm…
Partial type record
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
banknotes
4 Pence, Pennsylvania, 1777
1777
Museum specimen in the Smithsonian National Numismatic Collection (NU.NU75553.1), dated 1777, place made: United States: Pennsylvania. Museum record — Object name in the museum record: note. Maker or mint: Dunlap, John. Materials: paper (overall material); overall: 7 cm x 6 cm x.01 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 3/8 in x in.
Partial type record
Entries by catalogue category
- Banknotes4
- Modern World Coins2
- Postage Stamps2
Counts of published entries only. They describe this catalogue's holdings, not everything the issuer or maker produced.
Dated entries by century
- 17th century4
- 18th century4
Only the 8 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.
Materials recorded in the physical descriptions
- Paper4
- Silver1
An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.
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