Statistics for occurrence #1 of “New-England” in chapter 12, page 404 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...was sixteen feet square and ten feet high.
Such an edifice surely could not deserve the sneer of that adage, Twelve pence laid out on the purse, and only six in it.
One effect of introducing a New-England coinage was to change the custom of computing in Old-England currency; for, in the London market, the American coin sank at a rate of one-quarter below theirs.
The device on the die was as follow...
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