U.S.A., Colonial North America, New England, Oak Tree threepence, dated 165[2], no IN on obverse, 1.05g / 16.2 gr. (Noe 28.5; Salmon 6-B), punch-pierced and with some surface deposit, relatively little-worn and with salient details generally clear, at least very fine for the issue, rare Recently discovered by a detectorist near Ebchester, County Durham and recorded on the U.K. Portable Antiquities Scheme database (ref. NCL-7C60CD). Ebchester is just a few miles from Bywell, Northumberland where the descendants of early New England settler William Wentworth lived from the early 19th Century; cf. Morton and Eden sale 113, lot 1034 et seq.

Estimate: GBP 800-1200