1787 Massachusetts Cent - VG/Fine Details - Arrows in Left Talons - Massachusetts 1 Cent 1787 Colonial Issue Cent Commonwealth Cent

This listing is for the photographed 1787 Massachusetts Cent. This is for the actual coin pictured. Amazing piece of history. More information on this coin type below. Excellent detail, and a great piece for a collection. An "Act for establishing a mint for the coinage of gold, silver, and copper" was passed by the General Court if Massachusetts on Oct. 17, 1786. The following year, the court gave the direction that the design should include a native American, the reverse, a spread eagle. Early American currency went through several stages of development during the colonial and post-Revolutionary history of the United States. John Hull was authorized by the Massachusetts legislature to make the earliest coinage of the colony (the willow, the oak, and the pine tree shilling) in 1652. Because few coins were minted in the Thirteen Colonies, which later became the United Colonies and then the United States, foreign coins like the Spanish dollar were widely circulated. Colonial governments,