1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller Obverse 41 Brockage. Rarity-9. Draped Bust Left, AUCTOPI. VF-20 (PCGS).148.8 grains. To have a brockage Connecticut Copper is remarkable, to have a brockage of a major Red Book type is outstanding! Dark brown and lightly granular, though circulation has smoothed out some of the surface texture on both sides. Broadstruck a bit off-center on the obverse with no loss to designs or legends, the brockage side is a bit off-center, indicating that the brockage-maker had partially ejected from the dies before getting caught between the reverse die and this coins planchet. The off-centering affects most of AUCTOPI, though the PI is visible but a bit fuzzy. This is the only brockage known of this AUCTOPI obverse 40, though a mate to this coin—a brockage of Miller Obverse 41 also featuring the AUCTOPI spelling—was offered as part of our January 2013 sale of colonials from the Ted Craige Estate, a finer quality coin that brought nearly $6500.From the Robert M. Martin Collection. Ex Stack’s Sale of the Herbert Oechsner Collection, September 8-9, 1988, lot 1172.
