![Undated [1652] Massachusetts Bay Colony. New England Shilling. N.III-C, Cr. Plate I,3. R-6. 71.9...](http://www.stacksarchive.com/gallery/ST1005b/00/ST1005b0003t2.jpg "Undated [1652] Massachusetts Bay Colony. New England Shilling. N.III-C, Cr. Plate I,3. R-6. 71.9...") Undated [1652] Massachusetts Bay Colony. New England Shilling. N.III-C, Cr. Plate I,3. R-6. 71.9 gns. Extremely Fine. The Noe Census #10 Coin. The Noe Plate Coin. Both sides of this piece, like the preceding two, are toned in a nice and even shade of coin silver gray. The planchet is well shaped and nicely round. What appear to be rim bumps are really areas raised by the shears which cut the piece from its strip. The right side of the NE punch is soft on the descender of the first letter due principally to the fairly worn state of the punch. In addition, the diagonal break which runs down from the base of the E through the swooping descender of the N is here quite strong and pronounced. On the reverse, the denomination punch was very strongly entered nearly flat against the planchet surface resulting in sharp numerals and a nearly perfect outline of the cartouche. It is the cataloguer's opinion that on very close inspection it will be found that the various NE punches were probably various stages of recutting of a single NE punch, much the way some of the tree shapes in the Oak and Pine series change over time although they are fundamentally the same piece of die steel reworked as needed.
Rare: the cataloguer has seen fewer than 20 of these. This is about the only NE Shilling variety that is at all ''collectable.'' Described by Breen as ''Ex. Fine but edge bruises, none of them serious...Compare Bushnell 140, Wilcox I, are any or all of these the coin here offered?'' There was no N.III-C in the Stearns, Garrett, Picker, Oechsner, MHS (1970), or NN 48th, 59th and 60th sales. Roper's was graded EF. Norweb's VF went to Andy Hain. Noe reverse C was a well made punch by an engraver who knew his business and could execute letters in a crisp style. Since Noe obverse III looks fresh on the N.III-C combination it is possible that III-C was struck before III-A and III-B.
Ex George J. Bauer, T. James Clarke, F.C.C. Boyd Collections.
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