"1652" Shilling Good Samaritan/Oak Tree Wyatt Copy
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Description
A hybrid copy combining Good Samaritan and Oak Tree design elements, produced by Thomas Wyatt of New York. The design copies the so-called Good Samaritan shilling, which the E-Sylum describes as a fabrication made from a genuine Pine Tree shilling, now in the British Museum; Eric P. Newman's monograph The Secret of the Good Samaritan Shilling showed it was not a Massachusetts coin. The E-Sylum reports that the Good Samaritan and Oak Tree mule was struck by Edwin Bishop after he acquired Thomas Wyatt's dies, which Wyatt had used for his copies of Massachusetts silver about 1856. The genuine coin it imitates is listed in the catalog as 1652 Shilling Oak Tree.
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