 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pine Tree Shilling. Small Planchet. N.28, Cr.19-Q, W.56. R-6+. 69.6 gns. Very Fine. The Noe Plate Coin. The Crosby Plate Coin. The Wurtzbach Plate Coin. A good example of this very scarce variety. The cataloguer has seen only seven examples. Nice medium silver gray in the fields, the color a little lighter on the high points. Full tree on the obverse, portions of the root structure show, inner beaded border complete, peripheral legend fully legible if some letters run off the flan.
On the reverse the denomination and date are complete and the inner beaded border is sound while the letters in the legend around run off the edge in most places and are quite soft and a bit jumbled at the upper right. The piece has a pronounced planchet split visible on the obverse at about 6:00. Described by Carl Wurtzbach on his collector's ticket as ''Extremely Fine. One of the great prizes of the Pine Tree series, probably not more than two known. This piece identical to Crosby's illustration. Crosby-Newcomer-Clapp-Wurtzbach Collections.''
Ex Sylvester S. Crosby, Waldo Newcomer, Charles Clapp, Carl Wurtzbach, T. James Clarke, F.C.C. Boyd Collections.
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