 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Oak Tree Sixpence. N.16, Cr.6-F. R-5. 35.6 gns. Choice Very Fine. Light silver gray on the obverse with touches of iridescent gold; similar color scheme on the reverse, the shade a little more uniform. Typical obverse sharpness, the piece quite indistinct on the trunk and in the peripheral legend at lower right. Elsewhere fairly sharp for the variety. Much sharper on the reverse as expected. Obverse a little off center to the bottom; reverse quite tight on the flan, tops of most letters in the legend at the bottom and left run off the edge. A few light and very old shallow digs in the obverse peripheral field at about 10:00. Obverse die state as described; reverse broken through the inner beaded border below AN.
Ex Allison W. Jackman Collection (Henry Chapman, June 28, 1918, lot 9); F.C.C. Boyd Collection.
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