Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling
Robert Sanderson, American, 1608 - 1693
John Hull, American, 1624 - 1683
1675-1682
Silver
Overall: 7/8 in. (2.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Louise C. Harrington in honor of Frank L. Harrington, Class of 1924
M.991.3.7
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Money
Research Area
Numismatics: World Currency
On view
Inscriptions
obv: MASATHUSETS.IN.[around pine tree] rev: NEWENGLAND.AN.DO / 1652 / XII
Exhibition History
Money Talks: Roman Coinage in Global, Historical Context, Classical Studies 11, Professor Roberta Stewart, Gene Y. Kim Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 2, 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 61
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