Early American: coins sold in London recently recall the origin of the popular phrase “ rolling in money.” In 1C52 New Englanders made their coins out of oak, pine, and willow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, in ‘ The,Great Carbuncle,’ made one of his. characters roll about among 1 his pine-tree shillings to enjov the sensation of wealth. One of these shillings fetched £ls 10s. a sixpence £2O, and a threepenny piece £2l, •
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Evening Star, Issue 22031, 17 May 1935, Page 12
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