Massachusetts Oak Tree Shilling

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

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1660-1667

Silver

Overall: 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)

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

M.991.3.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Money

Research Area

Numismatics: World Currency

Not on view

Inscriptions

obv: MASATHVSETS[illeg.] [around oak tree] rev: NEWENGLAND.ANDOM. / 1652 / XII

Course History

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

Provenance

Collected by Frank Leighton Harrington, Sr. (1902-1988), Worcester, Massachusetts; bequeathed to Louise Cronin Harrington (1904-2000), Worcester, Massachusetts, 1988; given to present collection, 1991.

Catalogue Raisonne

Breen 16 Noe 4-5

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