richrosenfeld's Coin Album
Well-preserved and more fully struck than most NE shillings. Provenance: Col. JW Elsworth, Garrett Family Collection, Johns Hopkins University, Richard Picker, Christopher J. Salmon; Salmon 2-B.
Exhibition plate coin for the variety; Salmon 3-D type (only 9 known). Provenance: Samuel Chapman, Carl Wurtzbach (1914 ANS Exhibition Plate Coin), Virgil Brand, T. James Clarke, F.C.C. Boyd, John J. Ford Jr., and Donald G. Patrick; 1914 ANS.
Salmon 1-C, Wurtzbach Plate Coin; 9. Noe 3: Rare R.6 die marriage, only Oak Tree with NE starting at 1:30 on reverse; all others have NE starting about 8:00 o’clock; Provenance chain: Carl Wurtzbach, T. James Clarke, F.C.C. Boyd, John J. Ford Jr.
Small planchet; first Massachusetts coinage struck using screw press instead of rocker press (Oak Tree and large planchet Pine Tree), fixed reverse die and handheld obverse die (Willow Tree), or handheld punches (NE)