1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 24-g.5, W-3075. Rarity-5+. Draped Bust Left. Fine-15 (PCGS).
130.1 grains. Deep steel brown with a somewhat more orange area on the upper reverse from an apparent rub. A bit granular up close, with a couple of notable flan flaws on the obverse. One is near the right center, while the upper right quadrant of the obverse is clearly weak and rough from a broader flaw that left the planchet thin in that area. The corresponding area of the reverse is weak as a result. Still, the finer of two in the George Perkins Collection, where the cataloger noted that 19 of the 22 coins he had seen of this variety were graded between Good and Fine. Eric Newman had only a Good-6, while Donald Partrick owned an EF-45 that, while better preserved than this, seems to have been struck on a nearly identically flawed flan.
PCGS# 685125.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier acquired by George C. Perkins at the Brockton Coin Show, November 1982; our (Stack's) sale of the George C. Perkins Collection, January 2000, lot 298; McCawley and Grellman's 2002 C4 Sale, November 2002, lot 270; Jim LaSarre, via John Agre and Dave Wnuck (Coin Rarities Online), June 2006.

Estimate: $300