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

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.

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, rare coins that you might be able to sell.