1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 45-CC, W-4300. Rarity-5+. Draped Bust Left. Hapsburg Jaw. AU-50 (PCGS).131.4 grains. A Clark Obverse and Reverse Plate Coin. Little worn and sporting light golden brown luster in the legends and protected areas where the original mint color was last to fade, this deep olive brown specimen is a shade lighter on its reverse. Identifiable by a planchet flaw at effigy’s central chest and 2 carbon spots at opposing points of the obverse, Philip Keller acquired this specimen from one of the founders of the <em>Colonial Newsletter, </em> Al Hoch. Each side is ever so slightly off-center, with losses only to the very bottom portions of the date. Well struck everywhere but around obverse effigy’s eye socket, this coin is among the finest survivors of this die marriage and is in good company with the superb ex Garrett “EF” coin and the new to the census EF-45 example we sold for $3600 in these sale rooms in November 2017. A choice, visually appealing and well pedigreed example of the Hapsburg Jaw type, so-named by Breen in New Netherlands 51st Sale for the similarity he saw to the prominent jaws of the Hapsburg family’s rulers seen on various European coinages of the 17th and 18th centuries.From the Robert M. Martin Collection. Ex W. Philip Keller Collection, Heritage, October 28, 2010, lot 3231, acquired by Keller from Al D. Hoch on May 6, 1960. <p>
