Colonials are always fun and one of the most recognized and sought after is all the Massachusetts shillings. The "pine tree" variety is the most abundant and affordable of the several types. This one we bought from an old collection recently and even though it came back from PCGS as Fine Details I really dig the look.
Not to show you up too much, but here is a better one. I have owned this one for many years. It originally came from a Catherine Bullowa auction. I bid on it but didn't get it. I bought this one a few years later. One day I had the Bullowa catalog out and compared the pictures with the coin. Sure enough, it was the same one! It is a small Pine Tree shilling, Noe 16. This was made after John Hull got the patent for the rest of his life to make these coins. I thought this would get an EF-40 when I sent it to PCGS, but came back as a VF-35. Here is a British counterpart. This is from approximately the same era. The British shilling were heavier. The idea was to keep the Massachusetts coins from getting imported out of the colony.
I think that it has had some minor clipping done to it. Clipping is where a former owner WAY back in the day clipped off a little metal around the edges. If you clipping off enough from a number of pieces, after a while you had enough silver to make some money from it. Coins have lettered or reeded edges to discourage clipping.