With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to create their own currency, establishing a mint in 1652 in downtown Boston — the first in New England and second in North America — to produce three silver coins: a threepence, a sixpence, and a shilling.

A rare New England coin is expected to sell for at least $1 million at auction. WBZ-TV's Mike Sullivan reports.

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,

It always helps to have a little bit of coin around -- whether that be commonplace coins you keep in your purse for everyday usage, "coin" as in general money or even, in some special cases,