August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
Part B: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part C: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 1: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 3: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part D: We, 14.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 14.08.2024, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 5: Th, 15.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part E: Fr, 16.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Fr, 16.08.2024, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Sa, 17.08.2024, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Sa, 17.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Mo, 19.08.2024, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part G: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part H: Tu, 20.08.2024, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 10: We, 21.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part I: We, 21.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 11: Th, 22.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part J: Th, 22.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part K: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 12: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Description
"1652" (ca. 1963?) Oak Tree Shilling. Struck Copy. Newman Fabrication OD. AU-55 (PCGS).
73.6 grains. A dangerous counterfeit that could easily be confused for a genuine Noe-5 Oak Tree shilling, which type it was made to imitate. Mottled dark pewter and steel-gray with bold to sharp devices. Centering is fairly good, the obverse border through the tops of the letters at right, overall design complete and fully appreciable, reverse rotated 90 degrees clockwise from coin alignment. This copy is of unknown antiquity, but not described until 1963, when Eric Newman penned an article in the May 1963 issue of The Numismatist entitled "A Dangerous Oak Tree Shilling Copy Appears: How Can We Stop Coin Forgeries!" It has become well-documented since with a few specimens appearing at auction, including the Ford-E Pluribus Unum Collection piece in our (Stack's) Ford XIV Sale, lot 525 and later our November 2021 Baltimore Auction, lot 10299, respectively.
PCGS# 916215.
From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Jim King, August 11, 2007.
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Bidding
| Price realized | 3'400 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 1'100 USD |
