I very recently had a well worn Pine Tree shilling graded by PCGS (Genuine - G Details (98 - Damage or Tooling), and I thought I knew the coin type/die variety, but apparently not. Prior to submitting to PCGS, I felt confident that I had a large (though well clipped) Planchet variety (Noe 8), as it just about exactly matched examples in both resources. The grade from PCGS states that it is a small planchet version (PCGS #24, 40.27 grs) but I cannot find anything remotely close to the die variety in any resources for a small planchet. I'm struggling trying to find the die variety (Noe), in a small pl. I have the "Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins" and also used PCGS Coinfacts but can come up with no matches, or even remotely close ones. PCGS does not give a clue to the variety (although they probably could) and I do not have more authorative resources like "The Silver Coinage of Massachusetts" by Sydney P. Noe, etc., that they might have used. Ideas/suggestions would be appricated!
They've probably gotten it wrong and it probably is a large planchet. NEVER trust an attribution from the TPG's they make way too many attribution errors.
