1787 New Jersey Copper. Maris 55-m, W-5305. Rarity-4. Second U over S in PLURIBUS. VF-35 (PCGS).，142.6 grains. Superb medium chestnut brown, choice surfaces are seen on the reverse, though showing a meteor shower-like array of fine, as-made obverse planchet depressions that were undoubtedly elongated when the copper strip was rolled thin. The obverse is centered toward 6 oclock, shaving off the bottoms of the date digits, while the reverse is perfectly centered with at least some denticulation visible around the entire circumference. The U over S engraving blunder is visible with the naked eye, as is the jagged die crack between the B and U of the reverse legend that marks this as one of the scarce examples of Die State 2. This coin would be the pride of any well thought out collection of Jersey coppers, so it is hard to imagine that this was ODonnells duplicate, given that Walter Breen felt it to be the second finest known when he cataloged it in the 1976 EAC Sale. Though the compilation of any Condition Census is fraught with difficult choices, this piece seems worthy of joining the other "VF+" coins along the bottom rungs of the Siboni/Howes/Ish census.<em>From the Syd Martin Collection. </em><em>Earlier Ex</em><em> Pine Trees 1976 EAC Sale, February 27, lot 2040; our (Stacks) sale of the William ODonnell Collection of New Jersey Coppers, January 2001, lot 156; Lawrence R. Stack Collection. </em>
