1652 Shilling Pine Tree, N Reversed, Noe-10 MS(PCGS#897855)

1652 Shilling Pine Tree, N Reversed, Noe-10 MS (PCGS#897855)

November 2025 Showcase Auction U.S. Coins

Losbeschreibung: 71.5 grains. Noe-10 is the re-engraved version of Noe-8, which gives the present example the appearance of a lower grade. The reality, as confirmed by PCGS, is that this is a very high grade survivor from these dies. The surfaces are beautifully toned in medium and steel gray shades, the planchet with gentle wavy characteristics, as made. Centering is quite good, edges with a few shallow straight clips, detail sharp for the variety everywhere except at the left obverse and right reverse borders, where the letters are faint and only partially discernible. Free of even trivial marks with plenty of frosty mint luster evident as the coin rotates under a light.<p>Noe-8 through Noe-10 represent a "hollow tree" type among Large Planchet Pine Trees that deserves to be collected as a major variety. The Mint State primary Boyd-Ford coin brought $31,625 in our (Stack's) October 2005 Ford XII sale, and the Reed Hawn-Partrick coin in NGC/CAC MS-65 sold for $66,000 in a more recent Heritage auction in February 2022. Syd Martin's coin offered in our August 2023 Global Showcase Auction is the Boyd-Ford duplicate, which realized an impressive $23,000 in October 2005, but brought a more modest $18,000 in our Martin IV Sale. The present example, ex Garrett and Picker, is an even more satisfying PCGS AU-58 example of both the underappreciated "hollow tree" type and the Noe-10 attribution, fully deserving of the strongest bids.