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Interesting 'Pine Tree Shilling'
cmerlo1
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I picked this up at the B&M yesterday. Very nice 'facsimilie' of a Pine Tree shilling, made my International Sterling. I looked online and could find very little about these- does anyone know when they were made?
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Circa 1940's and I've never seen one worn that smooth as most seen are AU-UNC.
They all have applied patina for a aged look.
See if it is in a pamphlet called "Struck Copies of Early American Coins" (or something like that) by Richard Kenney.
Thanks, @Broadstruck and @CaptHenway. I really like the circulated look this one has. I did see a reference to Kenney in the research I did on the internet, but there isn't much info available.
By the way... No C in shilling....
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Thanks Ricko! Corrected.
Kenney, not Kenner.
The piece I remember seeing pictured was also circulated, but not as much as this one. They may have been popular as pocket pieces.
That looks like it could be a die trial / die adjustment strike with light pressure. I have a die trial struck by Dan Carr that has a similar look with a lightly struck center area.
It’s amazing how little information we have on some of these tokens. Seems like a potential area for research.
Sheesh- too many typos. Corrected- thank you for pointing it out.
Token Catalog has it listed here:
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=132754&inventory_id=70578&attribution_id=134158&td_create_uid=334
I saw one eBay sale where they claimed it was a "300-Year" reproduction made in 1952, but found one auction catalog from October 16, 1937 where there was one for sale as lot 610, so they've been around for awhile.
https://archive.org/details/thirtyfifthcatal00blue/page/22
And June 26th 1931 Lot 225
https://archive.org/details/sixtyeighthpubli00bole/page/14
And in a June 4th 1930 auction too - Lot 1025
https://archive.org/details/fiftyninthpublic00bole/page/32
Dec 13/14 1929 Lot 572
https://archive.org/details/publicsalerareco00elde/page/28
And as mentioned, it's in the Kenney reference of 1952
https://archive.org/details/coincollectorsjo19n1coin/page/16
And in Noe's Pine Tree Coinage of Massachusetts book of 1952
https://archive.org/details/ThePineTreeCoinageOfMassachusetts/page/n61
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that's cool looking
Thanks, Strikeout!
Probably the 300th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620, or 1920. By 1929 it might have become collectible.