An online exhibit presented by Colonial Williamsburg looks at the currency used in colonial times, from Dutch ducats to Benjamin Franklin designs.

However, it was also minted in 1652 in colonial Boston, more than a century before the 13 colonies declared independence from Britain.

One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England has sold at auction for more than $350,000, more than it was expected to get.

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.

A silver coin minted in colonial Boston in 1652 has sold for $351,912. The one shilling coin is one of just 40 of its kind known to survive today, the Associated Press (AP) reports. “I am not ...

An extremely rare, small silver coin broke a world record auction price, according to a gallery. The coin is one of the rarest American colonial coins known.

A rare coin from Colonial New England is expected to fetch about $300,000 at auction next month. The silver shilling coin, created in 1652 in Boston, is being auctioned off by the Morton & Eden ...

An extremely rare Colonial Massachusetts coin (pictured) from 1652 that was found by a woman in a potato field 22-years ago has been auctioned for more than $430,000 in Baltimore.

It may be the richest shipwreck treasure in history: some 15 tonnes of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean.

A dozen rare colonial coins worth almost $1 million have been stolen from the State Library of NSW.

BOSTON (AP) — One of the first coins minted in Colonial New England, which was recently found among other coins in a candy tin, has sold at auction for more than $350,000, more than it was ...