In 1652, British settlers in America defied their royal overlords by setting up a mint in Boston. The colonists began producing coins, a decision that symbolized New England’s “growing sense of identity as separate from the mother country and its determination to regulate its own economy without British interference,

Collectors snapped at an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a coveted 1652 threepence coin from America's first mint at auction last night.

A small silver coin that was struck in 17th century Boston just sold for $2.5 million dollars. The 1652 Massachusetts threepence is about the size of a nickel, weighs only 1.1 grams, and the silver itself has a value of $1.

An American silver coin from before the American Revolution that was recovered in an old cabinet in Amsterdam sold for $2.52 million at an auction, decimating the previous record. The threepence coin was made in 1652 in Boston,

A rare 1652 silver coin, about the size of a nickel, sold for $2.5 million at a California auction, breaking the previous record for a pre-Revolution American coin.

A small silver coin — about the size of a nickel — sold for $2.52 million at an auction, breaking the world record nearly eight years after it was found, a gallery said. The coin, identified as a 1652 Massachusetts threepence,