1652 Pine Tree Shilling. Large Planchet. Noe-7, Salmon 6-Dii, W-730. Rarity-6. Without Pellets at Trunk, Reversed Ns. AU Details--Cleaned (PCGS).71.3 grains. This is a sharply defined, generally well centered example with fully legible legends despite the fact that the obverse border lightly encroaches upon the lettering from 12 to 7 oclock. A planchet crack just before 6 oclock relative to that side is noted, obverse also with a couple of pin scratches left of the trees roots and at the letters SA in MASATHVSETS. The in hand appearance is quite smooth and, despite the fact that both sides are muted and somewhat matte-like to explain the PCGS qualifier, they have retoned nicely with gold and blue undertones to dominant pewter gray. The Noe-7 Pine Tree combines a new obverse with a reverse die derived from that of Noe-6, the latter showing re-engraving at the digits 65 in the date and a few of the letters. Salmon reports that this variety is often called the Tall Tree and he states that, The tree is very beautifully and realistically rendered with a narrow tapering trunk arising from a ground line that appears to consist entirely of roots which abundantly fill the foreground.PCGS# 915756. BASE PCGS# 45372. NGC ID: 2ARX.From the Richard August Collection. Earlier from a Centennial Auctions sale, lot 431; Jeff Kierstead.
