Pine Tree Shilling Copy?

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I'm not seeing a Pine Tree, but an Oak Tree. The letter and number positions on the reverse (the dated side for these) seems so close to the Crosby D reverse (used on Noe-4, 5, and 6), that I get the feeling it's a freehand copy of a Noe-5. But I just can't say it's exactly the same. What about it makes you think it's a copy? Other than not thinking your luck could be that good!

The lettering font seems odd to me, but if this is a copy it is NOT a modern one, and I think there is a fair chance it is real. (Frankly the fact that it is thin is a good sign, most copies are thicker than the genuine coins.)

Think I've got it!
Here's a genuine Noe-5 oak tree shilling. Notice how the G and L angle away from each other, and the center angle of the W meets at the top with a small inverted triangle. Treeguy's coin differs at these features, and the circles of dots are quite different.


Now check out this 2010 thread from another forum, where two identical counterfeit shillings (that are clearly copied from Noe-5, given the upswept lower branches on the tree) were found in a Texas shop. I think we have a third here.
http://www.cointalk.com/threads/165...fake.145014/
And here's the exact template of treeguy's replica, still being made, and on sale on a replica site for $1.90:
http://www.coinsofourpast.com/coinp...hilling.html

Huh, no one said anything about taking it to a coin shop. I would think maybe the guy can give you some information on it if he's NICE.

This is a tough one ... sometimes burial patina can show this effect on silver which in this picture seems to suggest high copper. This piece is worth sending to a TPG house not a coin shop. Even pictures to Stacks/Bowers as an E-Mail. Does it have a coin ring? Supply/post its weight in grams or grains here.

Found it.
This approximation of a Noe-5 Oak Tree shilling is the work of Peter J. Rosa, an accomplished mid-20th-century maker of coin replicas. The same design is still in use at the firm created by his nephew, but it seems the earliest replicas he made preceded the laws now on the books that replicas be stamped with the word COPY. In fact, that was one of the reasons Rosa quit the business; he had wanted to put COPY on the edges of the replicas, so as not to "mar their beauty," but the the law required in on the face.
http://www.coinreplicas.com/1652-ma...ree-shilling