Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling

Robert Sanderson, American, 1608 - 1693
John Hull, American, 1624 - 1683

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1667-1682

Silver

Overall: 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. and Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924

M.968.53

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Money

Research Area

Numismatics: World Currency

Not on view

Inscriptions

obv: MASATHUSETS IN [around pine tree] rev: NEW ENGLAND.AN.DOM / 1652 / XII

Course History

HIST 9.1, Empires and Colonies in North America, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2014

CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022

HIST 63.02, Material Culture of Science, Whitney Robles, Spring 2022

History 63.02, Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 2023

History 63.02, Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 3-August 20, 1989, no. 44.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, New England Silver at Dartmouth College: A Tribute to Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1989, no. 44.

Provenance

Frank L. Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988) and Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1968.

Catalogue Raisonne

BREEN 42 NOE 9

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