1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 33.44-W.3, W-4015. Rarity-6-. Draped Bust Left. EF-45 (PCGS).132.5 grains. A coin with great reddish-brown color, smooth wear and a great strike everywhere but at obverse effigy’s face and the corresponding area of the reverse side. Well centered, with no circulation marks or planchet flaws of which to speak. An ideal example of Rarity-6 die marriage, one exhibiting a very prominent upside-down L-shaped die crack at the front drapery on obverse effigy. A gorgeous coin, probably condition census, and rivaled by pieces like the AU-50 Taylor coin, the “better than Ex. Fine” 1975 EAC coin, and the EF-AU coin in Bowers and Merena’s Turoff Collection sale. If one had a collection of only R-6 die pairings that looked like this, it would be incredible!From the Robert M. Martin Collection. Ex Bowers and Merena’s Sale of the Robert Rusbar Collection, September 10-12, 1990, lot 1727.
