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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 25414290, member: 101855&quot;]I believe that this is a Noe 29, Salmon 11-F which is a common variety. In addition to the hole, the piece has also been clipped, which is the reason it looks &quot;too round.&quot; It was a common practice for dishonest people to cut off little pieces of these coins and pass them for their full weight. After a while, if you clipped enough coins, you could turn in the silver to have more shillings or other coins made. I imagine that merchants who handled a lot of coins were most often guilty of clipping. </p><p><br /></p><p>Placing a value on this piece is hard. Most collectors view a hole as the worst thing that can happen to a collectable coin. The Red Book says a Good-4 is worth $800. Don&#039;t expect much if you ever order a piece that is graded Good-4. I would say this piece might be worth $200 to the right collector who wanted an inexpensive example of Massachusetts silver. It wouldn&#039;t be the easiest sell. </p><p><br /></p><p>Certification is expensive these days, so I&#039;m not sure if it is worth it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the small planchet piece in my collection. This was the first Massachusetts piece that I acquired for my collection over 40 years ago. (Am I really that old?) This is probably the most common Pine Tree shilling. It&#039;s a Noe 16. It is now in a PCGS VF-35 holder. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1627845[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I first saw in this piece in an auction conducted by the late Catherine Bullowa. I bid on it, but didn&#039;t get it. Later I bought this piece at a Bay State Coin Show, which used to be held in Boston, a year and a half later. A couple years after that, I ran into the auction catalog from the Bullowa sale. Thumbing through it, I spotted this piece same piece among the auction plates. The first give away was the &quot;bird&#039;s nest&quot; die break on the left side of the tree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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