The 1615/16 Coins of #Bermuda : The First English Coins of North America @coinweek

By Greg Reynolds for CoinWeek In 1615 or 1616, coins were introduced in Bermuda. Although Bermuda was then called the Sommer Islands, for clarity, it is best to refer here to this place as Bermuda, as continual references to “Sommer Islands” would be distracting. Bermuda was then and still is a British colony. It is thus unsurprising that the first […]