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Auction: 24014 - The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection of English Silver Coins and Tokens
Lot: 622

Colonial America, New England, Massachusetts Bay, Pine Tree Shilling, 1652, small-sized issued [struck 1675-1682], MASATHVSETS IN, larger lettering with cluster of pellets at 6 o'clock, 'Cupid's Bow' branches to Pine tree, rev. IN NEW ENGLAND AN . DO, I 6 5 2 | X I I in two lines across field, the X like a curule chair, 4.850g, 12h (Noe 28; Salmon 10-D; W-920; Breen 60), usual die capping and splitting to peripheries resulting in legend softness, otherwise lightly cabinet toned, very fine, and very rare, an icon of American numismatics, this example unseen and unavailable to collectors since the 19th Century, and particularly poignant to be offered in Spink's rooms given the Company's direct investment in the Saugus Ironworks where the dies were first produced

Provenance

The Alfred Leonard Fuller of Bath Collection (1870-1941)


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