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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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