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The Puritans who settled Massachusetts made it a crime to celebrate the holiday (punishment: five shillings).
They also called their forged half-crowns large whites and forged shillings small whites.
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.
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.