A closer look
When the Massachusetts Bay Colony got tired of Britain ignoring their coin shortage in 1652, the local Puritans started illegally minting their own 'Pine Tree Shillings.' Because minting sovereign currency without the King's permission is textbook high treason, they employed a hilarious legal loophole: they just backdated every single coin they made for thirty years to the year 1652. When King Charles II finally asked questions, they played dumb, effectively committing decades of treason through administrative typo.
