Massachusetts Oak Tree Three Pence
Robert Sanderson, American, 1608 - 1693
John Hull, American, 1624 - 1683
1660-1667
Silver
Overall: 9/16 in. (1.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. Harrington in honor of Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924
M.991.3.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Money
Research Area
Numismatics: World Currency
Not on view
Inscriptions
obv: [oak tree] [illeg.]ATHUS[illeg.] rev: NEW ENGLAND / 1652 / III
Course History
CLST 11.19/HIST 94.16, Roman Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Winter 2022
Classics 11.19, History 94.16, Before Billboards and Twitters: Coins as Text, Roberta Stewart, Fall 2024
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 32 Noe 25-27
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