1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 32.2-X.4, W-3230. Rarity-5+. Draped Bust Left. AU-53 (PCGS).129.8 grains. Glossy deep golden-brown surfaces with a bold, hard appearance and abundant mint frost in the fields. Obverse off-center nominally to the bottom, the rim through the drapery and tight to the top of A, a tiny field tick below R the only mark available to the unassisted eye. The reverse is likewise off-center but to the top, the rim tight to the tops of cinquefoils 3 and 4 and Libertys head, negligible tiny fissure on her leg the only mark worthy of discussion. Lightly struck in places, but overall as sharp and appealing as one might expect from the given grade. High Condition Census for the variety, perhaps the third finest known of the variety after the Uncirculated Garrett coin and Taylor:2481; the present coin certainly approaches the latter piece for overall quality. Said ex Q. David Bowers in our 2012 cataloguing of this coin, though we are not sure if this was referencing Dave’s former ownership of many of the 1975 EAC Sale Connecticuts or a point later in time when he may have reacquired this coin.From the Robert M. Martin Collection. Ex Pine Tree Auction Company’s 1975 EAC Sale, February 15, 1975, lot 278; Bowers and Merena’s Sale of the Robert Rusbar Collection, September 10-12, 1990, lot 1726; Robert Lomprey, Jr. Collection; 2006 C4 Convention Sale, McCawley and Grellman, December 2006, lot 262; Stack’s Americana Sale featuring Collection SLT, January 25, 2012, lot 7214.
