1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 33.1-Z.13, W-3310. Rarity-5. Draped Bust Left. VF-35 (PCGS).121.2 grains. Deep steel brown with lighter gray highlights on the motifs. A bit of debris is noted in some of the finer recesses and legends. Microporous with some additional natural roughness where the strike is weak. One small laminated flaw at the center of Liberty, a small void at the top of the shield and another very small one in the effigy’s head. Nicely struck and well centered. The obverse die was in a later state, exhibiting pronounced cracks and a large bulge from sinking in the left obverse field. This has created distortion in the impression and a large soft area on the reverse, left of Liberty. Not quite as nice as the Taylor specimen, but certainly better than the secondary Perkins coin, and the Ford, Collection SLT and Newman coins.From the Twin Leaf Collection of Connecticut & Massachusetts Coppers. Earlier ex Robert Vlack, March 1984; George C. Perkins, Stack’s, January 2000:338; Tom Rinaldo at the 2000 Central States show.
