August 2023 Global Showcase Auction – 14 - 21 August 2023
Live Sessions: Ancient and World Coins, Currency
Part B: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part D: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 2: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 9:00 PM CEST
Part C: Tu, 15.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 3: We, 16.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 4: We, 16.08.2023, from 7:00 PM CEST
Part 5: We, 16.08.2023, from 10:00 PM CEST
Part 6: Th, 17.08.2023, from 12:00 AM CEST
Part E: Th, 17.08.2023, from 6:00 PM CEST
Part 7: Th, 17.08.2023, from 8:00 PM CEST
Part 8: Fr, 18.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part 9: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 1:00 AM CEST
Part 10: Sa, 19.08.2023, from 5:00 PM CEST
Part F: Mo, 21.08.2023, from 4:00 PM CEST
Description
1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 26-a.1, W-3110. Rarity-6-. Draped Bust Left. VF-20 (PCGS).
147.8 grains. Pleasantly glossy caramel brown with just a trace of steel mellowing on the high points and a mild reverse spot against the lower stem of the branch. Imperfectly centered, but only mildly so, with no resulting loss of design. Nicely balanced in terms of the strike, though the central reverse is weak due to wearing of the die that is common to this pairing. As noted in our 2012 offering of this piece, it is finer than Ford:322 for both surface quality and sharpness. Both Partrick coins, however, are nicer. Newman did not have the variety.
PCGS# 685369.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Frederick B. Taylor Collection, March 1987, lot 2454; our sale of Collection SLT, January 2012, lot 7184.
Estimate: $1200
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Bidding
| Price realized | 1'500 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 1'200 USD |
