1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 29.1-n, W-3150. Rarity-6. Draped Bust Left. VG-8 (PCGS).139.0 grains. Dark, gently mottled olive and steel brown. Microporous throughout with a few scattered marks and no serious flaws, natural or otherwise, beyond a long thin scratch across the lower reverse. Weak at the upper left quadrant of the obverse and corresponding area of the reverse, as is often seen on this variety, with just the I of AUCTORI lost to this softness. Well centered on the obverse and shifted just a bit to the left on the reverse.From the Twin Leaf Collection of Connecticut & Massachusetts Coppers. Earlier ex Mike Ringo, August 1990; Peter Scherff, Stack’s, March 2010:2366.
