1652 Shilling Pine Tree, Lg Planchet, Rev. N MS(PCGS#45372)

June 2023 U.S. Coins Auction

拍卖行

Stack's Bowers

批号

1249

等级

VF20

价格

16,950

详细说明

1652 Pine Tree Shilling. Large Planchet. Noe-9, Salmon-7a-Diii, W-750. Rarity-6-. Without Pellets at Trunk, Reversed N. VF-20 (PCGS). Bright, virtually brilliant surfaces show subtle silver-gray tinting in isolated areas. Struck on a pleasantly round planchet, which is a bit wavy, but offers universally bold definition relative to the assigned grade. Clipping in the Boston Mint has affected the very tops of a few peripheral letters, but the only mentionable lack of detail is confined to the central obverse, where some of the finer elements of the tree are indistinct. A short reverse cut at the final I in the Roman numeral XII is noted, but additional marks are wispy and faint enough to avoid detection by the unaided eye. The Noe-9 variety is deceptively scarce in all grades and was missing from Stearns, Garrett, Picker (1984) and other notable collections. Partrick's was Hain's nice duplicate. The Lasser coin at Colonial Williamsburg is a fascinating flip-over double strike. Only one specimen of Noe-9 appeared in our (Stack's) Ford XII sale, the other Boyd coin selling in NN60 in 1968. As noted in the Hain sale and repeated in Ford XII, "the real rarity of Noe 9 may still be underestimated even at R-6." We offered the finest known example certified MS-62 (PCGS) in our March 2015 sale of the Kendall Foundation Collection, where it brought $30,550. Trying to find 15 different examples of this variety might be an impossible challenge. This particular one is pleasing VF level and should command a solid bid. Provenance: From the Randall Perham Collection. Earlier ex New England Rarities, date not recorded. PCGS# 45372. NGC ID: 2ARX. Click here for certification details from PCGS. Image with the PCGS TrueView logo is obtained from and is subject to a license agreement with Collectors Universe, Inc. and its divisions PCGS and PSA.