 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pine Tree Shilling. Small Planchet. N.26, Cr.15-O, W.50. R-5. 73.7 gns. Choice Extremely Fine. The Noe Plate Coin. The Wurtzbach Plate Coin. An outstanding example and one of the finest seen, finer than Hain's two (''N.26.2s''), Stearns', Norweb's, Picker's, Roper's, the 1970 MHS coins (one misdescribed as the Noe plate coin) and the VF in NN's 60th Sale. Technically not as nice as the next but a whole coin and not an error. Both sides of this piece are toned in a nice deep silver gray shade. On the obverse the tree is full if a little soft on its trunk and root structure and the peripheral legend around is complete and mostly bold. On the reverse the denomination and date are clear and the peripheral legend around is complete. There is a near complete outer beaded border of dots on both sides.
Described by Carl Wurtzbach on his collector's ticket as ''Extremely Fine. Extremely rare, difficult to improve.'' The cataloguer notes that since most shillings described as Noe 26 are really later state Noe 26.2's, it makes no sense cataloguing them as anything but N.26's and simply remarking on the states of the dies, rather than creating a ''new'' variety which it really is not.
Ex Charles E. Clapp, Carl Wurtzbach, T. James Clarke, F.C.C. Boyd Collections.
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