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1652 New England (NE) shilling obverse with the NE punch — the Metropolitan Museum of Art's example of the same issue; the tracked Noe-1 specimen is a different coin

1652 New England (NE) Shilling

Maker
Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston mint, John Hull)
Year
1652
Rank
26 of 100

1652 New England (NE) Shilling

1652 New England (NE) Shilling by Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston mint, John Hull) (1652) is ranked 26 in the FLOAT 100 for Coins. It sold for $192,000 on 18 November 2024. Among the first coins struck in colonial America; the NE shilling is the earliest Massachusetts silver type.

What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?

Among the first coins struck in colonial America; the NE shilling is the earliest Massachusetts silver type.

Massachusetts silver shilling, NE (New England) type, Noe-1

What is the best-sourced number for it?

Figure
$192,000
Kind
Realized at auction
Date
18 November 2024

Stack's Bowers Galleries, November 2024 auction. Two NE shillings in the sale brought $60,000 and $192,000; the related NE threepence set a colonial record at $2,520,000.

This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.

How this is made

The figure
One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
Realized or not
A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
Why no grade ladder
Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
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