Nice Pine Tree Shilling

BS · March 30, 2007 5:40AM

I love these things.

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Cladiator · March 30, 2007 5:41AM

Magnificent!

commoncents05 · March 30, 2007 5:51AM

Wow thats awesome!!

-Paul

NumisOxide · March 30, 2007 5:59AM

Whoa!

ricko · March 30, 2007 6:03AM

Very impressive.. thanks for sharing... Cheers, RickO

relicsncoins · March 30, 2007 7:04AM

It's hard to believe that in a hard currency strapped new world that any coin from that era could be MS.

JJ

etexmike · March 30, 2007 7:09AM

I owned one of those once upon a time. I regretted selling it as soon as it left my hand.

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etexmike

pendragon1998 · March 30, 2007 7:12AM

I don't know a lot about colonials - I was wondering (1) what do the small circles to either side of the trunk signify and (2) what is that horizontal thing with the vertical lines coming out of it at the base of the trunk (it looks like a dead pine log)?

STONE · March 30, 2007 7:13AM

An MS-61 Pine Tree Shilling. It amazes me that such a coin in an extremely new nation could have stayed uncirculated (strictly speaking) for so long.

BRAVO, nice coin.

Cladiator · March 30, 2007 7:17AM

<< what do the small circles to either side of the trunk signify >>

No idea.

<< what is that horizontal thing with the vertical lines coming out of it at the base of the trunk (it looks like a dead pine log)? >>

I think that represents the ground.

Barndog · March 30, 2007 7:20AM

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<< what do the small circles to either side of the trunk signify >>

No idea.

<< what is that horizontal thing with the vertical lines coming out of it at the base of the trunk (it looks like a dead pine log)? >>

I think that represents the ground. >>

I thought the circles were Christmas ornaments...I guess I will stick to half dimes

notlogical · March 30, 2007 7:55AM

A Pine Tree shilling is my dream coin. That one is AWESOME!

Before I started collecting I read about one in "The Melted Coins" a Hardy boy's mystery. Reading about that coin, and then seeing one at a museum in the city where I live got me interested in coin collecting.

123cents · March 30, 2007 7:56AM

That's a great looking coin. I would love to own one.

Regulated · March 30, 2007 8:53AM

That is a very early die state for a Noe.1. Interesting coin... Mass Silver will always be one of my very favorite things.

Animalkeeper · March 30, 2007 9:12AM

She's a beauty. One of my "dream" coins also. I always think of Scrooge McDuck - Donald Duck's rich uncle when I see those (he had a pile of 'em inside his secret vault for those old enough to remember that scene)!

Thanks for sharing.

Edited: grammar, again....

BS · March 30, 2007 9:24AM

Here's the auction at DLRC

razzle · March 30, 2007 9:34AM

Well, there you go, we can all have our dream for a mere $5k. Someone asked about the little round things under the tree. Colonial folk disdainfully named them "widgets." They represent all the modern crap that would follow the establishment of the mints.

raz

Animalkeeper · March 30, 2007 12:51PM

$5K for an MS61 Pine Tree? No way, Jose. Think again. I'd have one already at that price.....

jmski52 · March 31, 2007 1:21PM

Does anybody remember a Hardy Boys episode that involved a Pine Tree Shilling? I've wanted one for 45 years now. Hmmmm.......

pendragon1998 · April 1, 2007 1:41PM

<< I don't know a lot about colonials - I was wondering (1) what do the small circles to either side of the trunk signify and (2) what is that horizontal thing with the vertical lines coming out of it at the base of the trunk (it looks like a dead pine log)? >>

Come on - someone has to know the answer to that.

Nice Pine Tree Shilling

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