1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 16.4-n, W-3020. Rarity-6+. Draped Bust Left. VF-20 (PCGS).A handsome and desirable mid grade example of this challenging die pairing, both sides exhibit considerable gloss to medium copper brown patina. The reverse is rotated approximately 30 degrees clockwise from coin alignment, the impression well centered on both sides. Even so, we note isolated softness of detail along the left obverse and reverse borders and, more significantly, in the date area on the reverse where only the top of the date is discernible. The in hand appearance is smooth overall with minimal planchet pitting, no marks of consequence, and only a bit of light surface build up here and there around the peripheries that is most extensive at the first letter N in CONNEC.<p>This is an uncommonly high quality Miller 16.4-n, not quite as sharp as the Perkins-Twin Leaf specimen most recently offered as lot 8163 in our August 2019 ANA sale (PCGS EF Details--Cleaned), but with far nicer surfaces. Our other offerings for this challenging variety in recent years were for low grade and/impaired coins in AG to Good, including the Collection SLT example that still fetched $920 in our January 2012 Americana Sale despite a dramatic and heavily distorting countermark on the reverse. The Heritage archives seem to reveal no offerings for this variety at all during the 21st century. Clearly this is a significant coin for the 1787 Miller 16.4-n variety that is sure to see spirited bidding among specialists.<p>This lot includes Colonial American Coin Club Photo Certificate #127909 for this coin signed by Walter Breen, a letter signed by Walter Breen and dated November 4, 1975 on Colonial American Coin Club letterhead providing historical information about Connecticut coppers, and (2) collector tag with attribution notes for this coin. <em><strong>The supporting items are available to the winning bidder upon request to Stacks Bowers Galleries at the close of the auction</strong></em>.