"1650" Shilling Pine Tree - Gletchell Fantasy
Strike Type
Coin Details
Auction Record
- Price realized
- $2,280
- Sold
- Grade
- AU50
- Auction house
- Stack's Bowers
Description
A struck copy of a Massachusetts Pine Tree shilling dated "1650"; the name in its title comes from a Mr. Getchell of Boscawen, New Hampshire, an owner of the piece before 1854, not from a die sinker. The Stack's Bowers catalogue of November 2021 describes such pieces as struck copies of about 1850: in 1854 a young man from Boscawen offered Dr. Ammi Brown of Salem several coins, including three Pine Tree shillings dated 1650, a story told in Crosby's Early Coins of America. The same catalogue lists the piece with this provenance as Noe C, a coin illustrated on Noe's plates. No genuine Massachusetts coin carries the date 1650: the colony set up its mint in 1652, and the Pine Tree design was used from about 1667 (WIKI). It is catalogued as Noe-C. The genuine coin it imitates is listed in the catalog as 1652 Shilling Pine Tree - Large Planchet.
Cross References
Noe-C
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