1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 16.2-NN.2, W-3010. Rarity-7. Draped Bust Left. AG-3. 148.2 grains. An exciting offering for the Connecticut copper specialist. Pleasingly original surfaces are warmly toned in mahogany-brown, both sides uncommonly smooth for the grade with only minor roughness in isolated areas and no sizeable marks. The few planchet fissures over the lower obverse and at the upper left reverse are so minor as to be hardly worth mentioning. Only upon closer inspection will one see a concentration of faint scratches over much of the obverse, and these are easily forgiven for such a rare Connecticut copper at the lower reaches of the numismatic grading scale. The discovery of this variety was announced in <em>The Colonial Newsletter</em> of October 1978. We have offered only three other examples: the bent Fine from the Scherff Collection in our (Stacks) sale of March 2010 that sold for $21,850, the Vlack discovery specimen, graded VG-7, that netted $9,775 in our (Stacks) January 2009 Americana Sale, and the Anderson-Gleckler coin graded Good-6 Verdigris that most recently realized $2,350 as lot 5243 in our November 2016 Baltimore Auction. This variety absent from Ford, Perkins, Norweb and other notable collections. From the Norman G. Peters Collection.
