Massachusetts Oak Tree Shilling
Robert Sanderson, American, 1608 - 1693
John Hull, American, 1624 - 1683
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.991.3.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Money
Research Area
Numismatics: World Currency
Not on view
Inscriptions
obv: MASATHVSETS.IN. [around oak tree] rev: NEWENGLAND.ANDOM. / 1652 / XII
Course History
HIST 9.01, America: From Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite, Fall 2019
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
HIST 5.14, Americas: Invasion to Independence, Paul Musselwhite and Ernesto Mercadeo-Montero, Fall 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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