| Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 504 pages
...ihilBngs, six pences, and three pencei. The law enacted, that " Massachusetts and a tree in the centre be on the one side ; and New England and the year of our Lord, and the figure XII, VI, HI, according to the value of each piece, be on the other side." Massachusetts... | |
| Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson - America - 1812 - 624 pages
...money should have a double ring with this inscription, MASSACHUSETTS, and a tree in the centre, on one side, and NEW ENGLAND, and the year of our Lord, on the other side. At the same sessions, a committee or council of trade was appointed, after the example, as expressed... | |
| Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1819 - 514 pages
...No 10. " As a mark of sovereignty they coin Money, stamped with this inscription Mattachusets, with a tree in the centre on the one side, and New England, with the year 1652, and the value of the piece, on the Reverse. AH the Money is stamped with these... | |
| Abiel Holmes - America - 1829 - 616 pages
...shillings, si\ pences, and three pences. The law enacted, that " Massachusetts and a tree in the centre be on the one side ; and New England and the year of our Lord, and the figure \u, vi, in, according to the value of each piece, be on the other side." Massachusetts... | |
| William M. Gouge - Banks and banking - 1833 - 414 pages
...as the standard currency of * " The law enacted that " Massachusetts" and a tree in the centre, be on the one side : and New England, and the year of our Lord, and the figure XII, VI, III, according to the value of each piece, be on the other side." — Massachusetts... | |
| Joseph Barlow Felt - Finance - 1839 - 272 pages
...Courte and the authoritie thereof, that henceforth all peices of money cojned aforesaid, shall have a double ring on either side, with this inscription — Massachusetts, and a tree in the center on the one side — and New England, and the yeere of our Lord, on the other side."2 With all... | |
| John Warner Barber - Massachusetts - 1839 - 674 pages
...of money should have a double ring with this inscription, MASSACHUSETTS, and a tree in the centre, and NEW ENGLAND and the year of our Lord on the other side.* The annexed cut is a representation of one of these coins. * The first money being coined in 1652,... | |
| Rogers Ruding - Coinage - 1840 - 456 pages
...but the date is supposed to be taken from one of 1652, with an imperfect 5. tion, Mattachusets, with a tree in the centre on the one side, and New England, with the year 1652, and the value of the piece, on the reverse. All the money is stamped witli these... | |
| Banks and banking - 1842 - 422 pages
...6d., and North Carolina at 8s. • " The law enacted that . Massachusetts and a tree in the centre, be on the one side: and New England, and the year of our Lord, and the figure XI1, V1, III. according to the value of each piece, be on the other side.' — Massachusetts... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 594 pages
...of money should have a double ring, with the inscription MASSACHUSETTS, and a tree in the center, on one side, and NEW ENGLAND, and the year of our Lord, on the other. The first money was coined in 1652, and the date was not altered for thirty years. In the year 1656... | |
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