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The term guinea , which had a value of twenty-one shillings, arose because the first guinea coins were minted in 1663 from gold brought from the Guinea region of West Africa.
They also called their forged half-crowns large whites and forged shillings small whites.
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts made it a crime to celebrate the holiday (punishment: five shillings).
But the guinea was not always valued at twenty-one shillings: from 1663 it varied from twenty shillings to thirty shillings; its value was not fixed at 21 shillings till 1717.