 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pine Tree Shilling. Small Planchet. N.23, Cr.16-M. R-6+. 71.0 gns. Very Fine. The Noe Plate Coin. A thoroughly collectable example of this very scarce variety. Hain had two, both VF, one ex Norweb. Picker also had a VF. Roper and Oechsner lacked the variety and there wasn't one in the NN trio (48th, 59th and 60th) or the 1970 MHS sale. Both the obverse and reverse are light steel gray in color. The front was about perfectly centered with just a few letters of the upper left running off the flan. On the reverse the piece is a little off to the top and some letters there run to or just over the edge of the coin. The centers are fairly well struck. There is a significant obverse planchet flaw in the middle left tree branches which engages the inner beaded circle and runs to the base of the second A. These sorts of planchet imperfections were somewhat rare at the Boston mint.
Ex F.C.C. Boyd Collection.
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