Extremely Rare Coin Made In Boston Nearly 400 Years Ago Could Be Worth $1 Million

By Mike Sullivan, CBS Boston

September 20, 2024

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. There are currently only three known coins of its kind, but one was stolen from a Yale collection, and has not been seen since.

"This is the most pristine as it can get. The other example at the Massachusetts Historical Society has a hole through it," said Stanley Chu, store manager at Stack's Bowers Galleries.

Stack's Bowers will have the extremely rare coin on auction in November. It's the only one available to the public. They got the coin from a shop in the Netherlands, but the coin is deeply rooted in Massachusetts.

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