1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 2-B, W-2755. Rarity-3. Mailed Bust Left. VF Details—Tooled (PCGS).156.9 grains. Glossy dark chocolate brown with mottled steel and tan throughout. Traces of hard green olive on the reverse. Microporous with a small planchet void beneath Liberty’s feet that is fortuitously positioned so as to not be too distracting. Old long toned over abrasions are seen on the reverse under magnification, and while these are easy to miss, they resulted in the PCGS designation. Centered a little high on both sides, this being struck in medal-alignment. Not a rare variety but a nicer than average example. Very similar to the Q. David Bowers specimen sold in Pine Tree’s 1975 EAC sale, but that coin, described by Walter Breen as “better than any auctioned in decades,” had a prominent planchet flaw at the face. Otherwise this coin is quite similar, even sharing the same subtly off-center strike. Certainly the nicest example we have handled in recent years, and better than the Taylor, Perkins, Collection SLT, and Eric Newman coins.From the Twin Leaf Collection of Connecticut & Massachusetts Coppers. Earlier ex Seventh Annual C4 Convention sale, November 2001:113.
