 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pine Tree Shilling. Large Planchet. MASATVSETS. All N's Backwards. N.11, Cr.2a-A1, W.40A. R-4. 72.4 gns. Choice About Uncirculated. The Noe Plate Coin. The Wurtzbach Plate Coin. An exceptional specimen and while not the finest it is certainly among the best examples known. This is a lovely coin toned in pale gold and very delicate blue on both sides. The tree is sharp and clear save for the top right branches and its trunk, which is a little soft at the bottom. Partial root structure shows. The letters in the legend around are soft on their tops, about as expected from the variety. All are present on flan save for the very tops of IN, which run off the edge.
On the reverse the denomination is a little soft, the date is bold and the letters in the legend around are soft on their tops, very weak on N DO at the lower right. The fields are bright and clear and may show some original frost as the piece is angled through the light. Wurtzbach described this on his collector's ticket as ''Unc - A valuable gem coin.''
Ex Tom Elder's sale of April 13, 1935; Carl Wurtzbach, T. James Clarke, F.C.C. Boyd Collections.
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