1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 32.8-aa, W-3275. Rarity-6-. Draped Bust Left, FNDE. VF-25 (PCGS).
93.0 grains. Medium olive brown with some ruddy highlights in the fields. Glossy but exhibiting microscopic roughness. This may be attributed to both remaining natural planchet texture that did not strike out as well as some light granularity. A bit of debris clings to the reverse devices. Somewhat weak through the obverse periphery as often seen on this variety due to the failing state of the die. The reverse is sharper. Centered just slightly to the right relative to the obverse, and on a thin, tight flan, the letters of CONNEC being at least tight to the rim, and over in some cases. The reverse details, including the date, are acceptably complete. The provenance given in the Ford catalog was to an unrecorded 1918 Lyman Low sale, where it was in an 11-piece lot. That sale was September 1918 (lot 99), which offered a group of "1787 Unassorted mailed bust l." coins called "V. fair and good." The buyer was unrecorded in the catalog we saw, but the Ryder tag with this lot fills in that blank. Unusually lightweight for the issue, but this is at least partly due to the small natural edge clip. The obverse is plated in Clark.
PCGS# 685201.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier from Lyman Low's sale of September 2018, lot 99 (part); Hillyer C. Ryder; F.C.C. Boyd; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part IX, May 2005, lot 349; our sale of the Twin Leaf Collection, March 2019, lot 8212.

Estimate: $1200