1787 Connecticut copper. Miller 33.36-T.2, W-3900. Rarity-2. Draped Bust Left. MS-62 BN (PCGS).123.1 grains. Glossy and lustrous, with abundant mint frost keeping company with traces of mint color around the peripheries of both sides. Truly Mint State, though with significant areas of central softness showing the original planchet texture in those regions. Evidence of clashing is easily seen through AUCTORI, and the adjacent obverse field is bulged from the injury. The obverse is very nicely centered and shows denticles at the left side and the lower right. The reverse is aligned to 12:00 and shows the die edge and a raised rim below the date. A darker patch of toning at ET seems caused by a different planchet mix or anomaly in that region, and a planchet flaw right of the sprig stands as the only fissure outside of the unstruck central areas. The 2000 Perkins sale reported “one Unc seen” and several AUs in the Condition Census. Ford’s was among the AUs. This is finer.PCGS Population: 2; 5 finer (MS-64+ BN finest).From the Archangel Collection. Earlier, from Stack’s sale of the Laird Park Collection, May 1976, lot 82; Stack’s sale of the C. Ramsey Bartlett Collection, February 1966, lot 27.
