1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 33.17-gg.2, W-3635. Rarity-5. Draped Bust Left, ETLIR--Flipover Double Strike and Brockage. VF-25 (PCGS).
1787 Connecticut Copper. Miller 33.17-gg.2, W-3635. Rarity-5. Draped Bust Left, ETLIR. VF-25 (PCGS). 119.8 grains. Fairly uniform golden brown on the obverse while the reverse is just a hair more deeply toned. Glossy and fairly hard surfaces with just a trace of light granularity in places. A complex and exciting minting error to contemplate. The first strike seems to have been normal, then the coin flipped and rotated, landing back between the dies rotated about 45 degrees and shifted slightly off center. At the same time, a second struck coin was positioned in the dies, but shifted about 45% off from normal. In the second impression, the extra thickness of the metal between the two dies caused by the partial overlap of the two coins brought up strong detail in the second strike through the effigy's face, head, and upper rightmost legend, while not impacting the rest of the first strike. On the reverse, a similar effect imparted only the off-center brockage details, leaving the face and leftmost features of the first strike intact. A moderately scarce variety, but one that seems to have a concentration of striking errors. Most are double struck, and we have seen at least one other brockage, but the interesting combination offered here is very rare, if not unique for the variety.
PCGS# 685142.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex John Kraljevich, August 2011.

Estimate: $2100