LONDON, KOMPAS.TV – A very rare coin was found in a candy can containing hundreds of old coins. The coin turned out to be worth the equivalent of Rp. 4.2 billion.
Coins with a face of one penny were minted in the mid-17th century in the United States (US).
The money, known as the ‘New England coin’, will be auctioned in London, England in November.
Auction house Morton & Eden Ltd will set a price of 300 thousand US dollars, equivalent to Rp. 4.2 billion. That value would make it the seventh most expensive coin in the world, on par with the Morgan Silver Dollar.
Launch Associated PressThe one shilling silver coin was minted in Boston, United States in 1652.
The coin’s design features the initials NE for New England on one side and the Roman numerals XII or 12 on the other.
It is estimated that there are only 40 coins of this type in the world today. The coin itself was recently discovered in England in a candy can containing hundreds of old coins
“I could hardly believe my eyes when I realized that the surviving coin was the New England shilling, minted by John Hull in 1652 in Boston for use as currency by the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,” said a specialist auctioneer. coin from Morton & Eden Ltd named James Morton, quoted from AP News.
John Hull and his assistant, Robert Sanderson, were the first mints of silver coins in North America by order of the Massachusetts General Court.
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