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1652 SHILNG Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:23,000.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
1652 SHILNG Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet
<B>1652 SHILNG Pine Tree Shilling, Large Planchet MS63 NGC.</B></I> Noe-5, Crosby 5-B2, R.4. 72.2 grains. The second of three examples offered by Stack's in the John J. Ford sale of Massachusetts silver. Conservatively graded AU in the Ford catalog, but called "one of the finest seen" by the Ford cataloger. Although not particularly rare, any Mint State or near-Mint State Massachusetts silver piece will gain the respect and admiration of specialists.<BR> We can do no better than quote the description of this piece by Stack's: "Both the obverse and reverse are light silver gray in color. There are traces of original mint frost visible in the fields in places on both sides. The central devices are much better struck than seen on the Noe plate coin, to which this is a very close twin in terms of centering and overall sharpness of detail. The tree is full and bold, the root structure is clear, and all the letters in the obverse legend are about on flan save for the very tip of N in IN. On the reverse the centering is also a near twin to that seen on the Noe plate coin but the sharpness is a little better than that coin's. Reverse die breaking in several places. There is a small planchet dig in the fifth branch on the right of the tree." To that description we can only add that the aesthetic appeal is nothing short of amazing.<BR><I>Ex: Henry Chapman (1/1915); F.C.C. Boyd; John J. Ford (Stack's, 10/2005), lot 88.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Coins & Currency (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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