1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 33.28-Z.20, W-3775. Rarity-7+. Draped Bust Left, Snipe Nose. VG-10 (PCGS).126.6 grains. Dark brown fields, lighter golden-brown high points and tops of most letters. Obverse surface quite rough and granular in appearance but uniformly so and thus not very disturbing; the reverse about the same, uniformly granular in the fields, more lightly granular on Libertys figure. No important flaws requiring mention save a short linear one on Libertys right thigh. Both sides well centered. Pronounced reverse die cud on the rim above the final cinquefoil, top of neighboring "B" beginning to close. This is a desirable example of this seldom available variety, probably third finest of just six known and arguably the best pedigreed of the six. Better centered than the slightly higher grade Hessberg-Perkins-Partrick example that is missing most of its date. An exciting piece for specialists as it was at the Ford sale where it realized $32,200.PCGS# 686387. NGC ID: 2B2X.<strong>To view supplemental information and all items from the Sydney F. Martin Collection, click<a href="https://stacksbowers.com/sydney-f-martin-collection/"target=’_blank’> here.</a></strong>.From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Thomas L. Elders sale of the Henry C. Miller Collection, May 1920, lot 1978; Hillyer Ryder; F.C.C. Boyd; our (Stacks) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part IX, May 2005, lot 406. Obverse plated in Randy Clark "The Identification and Classification of Connecticut Coppers 1785-1788," p. 385.<p>
