1652 Shilling Willow Tree
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The Willow Tree shilling represents the second design type in the Massachusetts Bay Colony silver coinage series, struck approximately 1653 to 1660 by mintmaster John Hull and his partner Robert Sanderson at the Hull Mint in Boston. Willow Tree coins were the first tree design, ordered by the General Court on October 19, 1652: a tree inside a ring of beads with MASATHVSETS IN on one side, and the value with NEW ENGLAND and the date on the other. Mossman dates them from late 1652 to about 1660, struck now and then rather than steadily, and Noe noted that the new dies were far harder to cut than the NE punches. Every Willow Tree coin is dated 1652. Noe and Salmon list the Willow Tree shillings as die pairs 1-A, 2-A, 2-B, 3-C, 3-D and 3-E. Cataloged as PCGS #16.
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