Per the statement, the coin’s $2.52 million sale price set a new world record for an American coin made before the American Revolution. (The previous record holder sold for $646,250.) ...

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.

WARWICK, R.I. — An extraordinarily rare coin with a face value of just pennies when it was minted in mid-17th century New England could sell for the equivalent of about $300,000 when it's put up ...

BOSTON - One of the rarest colonial coins will be on sale from a coin dealer in Boston. The 1652 New England threepence is expected to fetch a price tag well over a million dollars.

American Colonists Minted This Humble Silver Coin in 1652. It Just Sold for $2.52 Million Settlers in Massachusetts needed cash, but England wouldn’t send any.