 1652 Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pine Tree Shilling. Large Planchet. Backwards N. N.5, Cr.5-B2. R-4. 72.1 gns. About Uncirculated. A pleasing example and also one of the finest seen. Both the obverse and reverse are light silver gray in color. There are traces of original mint frost visible in the fields in places on both sides. The central devices are much better struck than seen on the Noe coin, to which this is a very close twin in terms of centering and overall sharpness of detail. The tree is full and bold, the root structure is clear and all the letters in the obverse legend are about on flan save for the very tip of N in IN. On the reverse the centering is also a near twin to that seen on the Noe plate coin but the sharpness is a little better than that coin's. Reverse die breaking in several places. There is a small planchet dig in the fifth branch on the right of the tree.
Ex Henry Chapman's sale of January 16, 1915, lot 12; F.C.C. Boyd Collection.
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