XII Pence 1652 British Or Early American Token?

Ill definitely watch to see if someone does know, but it looks like an emergency issue of some type.

I would have bought that one myself.

This may be interesting. It looks like a coin weight. By listing COL (Colonial?), M (Massachusets?), and NE (New England?) it points to early American shillings. What does it weigh and how does that weight compare to published weights for the NE shilling and early large planchet Massachusetts shillings? If the weight matches then the next step is to identify who made coin weights like this? Coin weights were made to account for circulating coins and the date of 1665 may indicate this does not apply to small planchet Mass silver, made through the 1680s. But this is deep knowledge of coins not well know back in the day. If we allow that Massachusetts shillings could turn up in change for two hundred years post-1652, then this could be a 19th century object.

I found a reference to this in the American Journal of Numismatics, published in 1881.

Quote from the book:

"A curious piece, XII Pence, 1665, rev. Col + M + NE. star or sun in centre, size and weight of a shilling, brought 11; this piece we consider to be of doubtful character, and probably of the same class as the "Novum Belgium," which was rediscovered recently, though probably not issued from the Betts mint."

There appears to be an undertype of some sort visible.