1786 Connecticut Copper. Miller 5.5-M, W-2595. Rarity-3. Mailed Bust Left. AU-53 (PCGS).

118.9 grains. A very handsome piece with slightly lustrous light steel-brown and reddish-tan surfaces. Nicely struck on an unflawed planchet, the entirety of the design on both sides is fully and evenly impressed with no areas of weakness. Just slightly off center, only the very tops of ET LIB affected. No distracting impairments nor serious marks, a minor scratch across the shoulder the only one to note. A well preserved and little used coin with just light wear on the high points and frosty luster remaining in the peripheral fields. Pedigreed to the famous 1975 EAC Sale, a desirable provenance for specialists. The sale contained the Q. David Bowers Collection of Connecticut coppers, itself a composite of several of the great collections of the preceding decades including those of Richardson, Bryant, Craige, and Kessler. It was the most extensive offering of Connecticut varieties up to that time and the first thoroughly cataloged auction treatment of the series. It served as a reference work for many years to come.

PCGS# 686354.

From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Pine Tree Auction Company, Inc.'s Early American Coppers Society Convention Sale, February 1975, lot 48; Anthony Terranova Collection, January 2012.