1786 Vermont copper. Ryder-9, W-2040. Rarity-3. Baby Head. VF Detail, Scratch (PCGS).124.4 grains. Despite its flaws, this is a spectacular Baby Head, soundly struck on an unflawed chocolate brown planchet that shows strong gloss and traces of frost. The legends are complete and the central devices manage to marshal nearly all the detail out of these crude dies. The date, almost entirely on the planchet, is somewhat obscured by the encapsulation but is present. A couple trivial scratches are seen just above the portrait on the obverse, but the most significant scratches are visible on the reverse. A single diagonal scratch crosses the lower half of the reverse device, and a few others cross the right reverse field from the elbow to T and L of ET LIB. Without these scratches, this would be among the finest Baby Heads this cataloger has ever encountered. With them, it’s still a great coin.From the Archangel Collection. Earlier, from Stack’s sale of the Robison Collection, February 1982, lot 194.