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1955 Press Photo Gimbels stamp/coin dept exhibit includes US Pine Tree Shilling

This is an original press photo. An exhibit of hundreds of tokens, coins and currency from throughout the world will be shown for two weeks beginning Monday in the stamp and coin department at Gimbels. The exhibit will include one of the oldest coins known to man, a small silver likeness of a turtle made at Aegina, an island near Greece in the seventeenth century B.C. The most noted early American coin in the collection is the pine tree shilling minted in Boston between 1652 and 1686. Money - CoinsPhoto measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated 07-10-1955.

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