1788 Connecticut Copper. Miller 7-K, W-4490. Rarity-6+. Mailed Bust Left. Fine-12 (PCGS).110.0 grains. One of the more wholesome examples available of this very rare and condition sensitive variety. When we cataloged this coin in the Perkins catalog in 2000 there were just five examples known, and the variety has been considered a Rarity-7 as recently as the publication of the Clark reference in 2021. There are 14 or 15 now known, but the additional specimens that have recently come to light are almost invariably in extremely low grade. This example has attractive medium brown and tan surfaces that overall smooth to the naked eye and just barely microporous under a glass. Planchet flaws at the obverse rim at 8 oclock and on the reverse on the seated figures left arm. Good fullness of detail for the grade with just about all of the date and legends visible, as well as nicely defined motifs. Overall a handsome and well pedigreed example of a very challenging variety and a coin that would do justice to any advanced collection.PCGS# 687259.From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from a 1984 Early American Numismatics Mail Bid Sale, lot 51; our (Stacks) sale of the George C. Perkins, Esq. Collection, January 2000 Americana Sale, lot 505; Jim LaSarre, via John Agre and Dave Wnuck (Coin Rarities Online), June 2006.
