1786 Connecticut Copper. Miller 5.5-M, W-2595. Rarity-3. Mailed Bust Left. VF-30 (PCGS).An exceptionally attractive example of the variety, this premium quality Choice VF exhibits smooth, satiny, olive-copper and rose-brown surfaces. Both sides are also well struck, the impression nicely centered with all design elements clear and most of the finer features boldly to sharply detailed. There is even some denticulation along the lower reverse border. Although not a particularly rare variety in an absolute sense the 1786 Miller 5.5-M is, like so many Connecticut copper die marriages, rare with the quality and eye appeal offered here. The present example is nearly as nice as both of the Ford specimens, the finer of which was cataloged as "one of the best seen" in our (Stacks) Ford IX sale of May 2005.
