1652 Pine Tree Threepence
- Maker
- Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston mint, John Hull)
- Year
- 1652
- Rank
- 91 of 100
1652 Pine Tree Threepence
1652 Pine Tree Threepence by Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston mint, John Hull) (1652) is ranked 91 in the FLOAT 100 for Coins. It carried a price-guide value of $11,500 on 6 August 2026, which is not a sale. A small denomination of the iconic Pine Tree coinage — early American silver in fractional form; a colonial collector staple.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
A small denomination of the iconic Pine Tree coinage — early American silver in fractional form; a colonial collector staple.
Massachusetts silver threepence, Pine Tree, Noe-36 (Salmon 2-B), PCGS AU55 CAC
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $11,500
- Kind
- Price-guide value, not a sale
- Date
- 6 August 2026
PCGS Price Guide value for PCGS #45366, 1652 3P Pine Tree No Pellets — the Noe-36 / Salmon 2-B / W-640 attribution, confirmed by the Stack's Bowers Noe-36 lot page citing the same PCGS number — reads $11,500 at AU55, with a PCGS population of only 2 in that grade. Native USD. This is a catalogue guide value, not a specific sale, and carries no CAC premium; the same page's AU55 auction records for the variety run $5,760 (Stack's Bowers 11/2024) to $12,000 (Heritage 01/2020). No AU55 Noe-36 CAC sale could be verified because Heritage and GreatCollections lot pages were blocked.
This is not a sale. It is what the market was asking, and no transaction is recorded behind 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.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08