拍品描述： 1787 Machins Mills Halfpenny. Vlack 18-87C, W-7930. Rarity-4. GEORGIVS III, Group III. AU-58 (PCGS).111.5 grains. This is a high Condition Census example of the variety, probably among the very finest known. Essentially the equal to the plate coin on page 231 of the 2020 2^nd Edition of the <em style="box-sizing:border-box;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;widows:2;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px;">Whitman Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins</em> by Q. David Bowers. Ideally centered on a satiny medium brown planchet, the strike has imparted sharp to full definition to most design elements. Smooth and inviting, a few swirls of variegated color in the right obverse field are mentioned solely for provenance purposes. According to the aforementioned Bowers reference, the finest known survivors of the Vlack 18-87C dies range in grade from AU-50 to MS-65, and the Howes, Rosen, Trudgen reference lists a range of EF-45 to MS-63. Clearly this nearly Uncirculated example would make a significant addition to an advanced collection of Machins Mills coppers.PCGS# 826958.From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from our sale of the Dr. Gordon Shaw Collection, March 2017 Baltimore Auction, lot 214.