Catalog
3 Pence - NE
| Issuer | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
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| Year | 1652 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Plain hammered silver field with a crudely struck monogram 'NE' — standing for New England — positioned in the upper portion of the flan. The letters are rendered in a bold, unrefined style characteristic of primitive colonial hammered coinage, with no border, legend, or additional decorative elements. The flan itself is irregular in shape, with an uneven edge typical of hand-cut silver planchets of the period. The field bears numerous adjustment marks and die-struck surface irregularities consistent with mid-seventeenth-century hammered production. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | III |
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