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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24660321, member: 101855"]The small planchet Pine Tree Shillings were stuck on a screw press and are generally higher quality. I don't collect these coins by die variety, so this one might be something special in that regard. Even so, if a type coin is what you want, you can find this coin fully struck without a lot of trouble. I would pass. Here is the coin in my collection for the small planchet Pine Tree Shilling. I bought this coin back in the 1980s. I failed to get it in an auction, but bought it a couple of years later without knowing that. A year or so after that, I ran into the old auction catalog. I checked it out, and darn if wasn't the same coin with the "bird's nest" strike defect in the branches! I thought that this coin would grade EF-40, but PCGS called it VF-35. [ATTACH=full]1571981[/ATTACH] Here is a large planchet Pine Tree Shilling. This earlier type is more desirable, but also more expensive. [ATTACH=full]1571982[/ATTACH] And here is a Pine Tree three pence. These smaller pieces are rarer than the higher denominations, but not as popular. Therefore they sell for about the same price. [ATTACH=full]1571985[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]