1786 Vermont Copper. Landscape. RR-6, Bressett 4-D, W-2020. Rarity-3. VERMONTENSIUM. Very Fine.118.7 grains. Glossy and hard, deep chocolate brown surfaces are quite appealing and choice for a Landscape Vermont. Detailing is bold and essentially complete, but for some softening around plow (due to porosity) and at several of the right side rays on the reverse (due to inherent planchet flaws in that area). Struck from the advanced states of both dies, the obverse cracked from denticles to the digit 7 in the date and again from denticles through the space between the digits 78 to the plow. The reverse die cracks/breaks below QUARTA are slightly more severe than normally encountered. The obverse is struck off center a bit toward 1 oclock, showing that the die is broken beyond the denticles most probably to the extreme edge of the die; the reverse is also off center, this time toward 12 oclock, leaving a large blank crescent at the lower border on that side. The Landscape Vermont as a type is avidly collected as one of the most romantic and anomalous designs in the sea of busts and seated figure motifs normally encountered in the American Colonial coin series. Although these coppers are readily available in an absolute sense specimens with choice surfaces, as here, make up a much smaller subset of the surviving population.From our (Stacks) Amherst & Waccabuc Collections sale, November 2007, lot 67. Lot tag included.
