1652 Pine Tree Shilling Noe 29

Wow,that shilling is just superb,shame someone holed it,but what a fantastic find,congrats to you.

Just got my Stacks Bowers Catalog and there are two Noe-29s for sale in the Henry P. Kendall Foundation Collection Sale. The cataloger notes about the Noe-29: "Even the highest grade Noe-29s show relatively little detail, so grading them comes down to surface quality best assessed through the chance to see a goodly number of specimens, an opportunity that is possible for most given how many Noe-29s have survived." Both cataloger and collector obtained Noe-29s as their first ever Pine Tree Shilling, one having purchased his at the Marshall Field Department Store. They are listed as rarity "R-3" Less Common, but not scarce or rare, on the colonial coin scale where R-1 is "common" with more than 1000 known to have survived. Apparently several hundreds of Noe-29s are known in collector's circles, nice examples always being what brings the highest prices.