Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Old Coins Minted In America. [ARTICLE]

Old Coins Minted In America.

The “minthouse” in Boston existed about thirty-four years. All the coins Issued from it bore the dates of 1652 or 1662, the same dies being used, probably, throughout the thirty-four years of coinage. Some coins had been made in Bermuda for the use of the Virginia colony as early as 1644, Copper coins bearing the figure of an elephant were struck In England for the Carolines and New England in 1694. Coins were also struck for Maryland bearing the effigy of Lord Baltimore. A mint was established in Kupert, Vt., by legislative authority In 1785, whenoe copper ceqj'i were issued, bearing on one side a plow and a sun rising from behind hills, and on the othor a radiated eye surrounded by thirteen stars.—Boston Budget.