1785 Vermont Copper. Landscape. RR-4, Bressett 3-C, W-2015. Rarity-4. VERMONTIS. VF-35.113.6 grains. Very pleasing, glossy two-tone surfaces are light brown on the high points and legends, and dark brown in the fields and between the details of the devices, a toning pattern that Carlotto noted in his tome on the series. Struck from the usually seen failing and sunken state of the obverse die, which created a mounded ring around the internal periphery of the coin. This ring is often the first to wear, as seen here, and between this wear and planchet flaws, examples of; VERMONTIS type Landscape are rarely display fully rendered legends, as here. Obverse centered a bit toward the right, and the reverse toward the right, bringing the tops of some letters in close contact with the rim. Two areas of striking weakness on the reverse are directly attributable to the high points of the die obverse die failure. This is among the finest and most attractive survivors of the late die state of the Ryder 4 die combination.
