1786 Vermont Copper. Landscape. Brockage of Obverse of RR-6. VERMONTENSIUM. VF Details--Environmental Damage (PCGS).
113.5 grains. Dark brown and deep forest green, rough surfaces are that of a grounder, and it would not surprise us if this coin were lost to the ground when it was new or nearly so, given the amount of detail that appears to remain, if deadened by exposure to the elements. The important brockage side, showing the Green Mountains scene but in reverse and incuse, is the better of the two sides, showing great sharpness and depth amidst a crystalline patina. Though double strikes, both minor and extravagant, can be found with some searching in the Vermont Landscape series, the king of error coins-the brockage-is a rara avis in the series. We recall only two pieces showing the brockage error, both sold in our November 2020 E Pluribus Unum offering, and both probably errors that were contrivances of the coiner-one was a flipover double struck RR-4 showing two obverses in two different die states with a brockage of the reverse, and the other was a brockage of the obverse of RR-2 mated with the regular reverse of RR-4. We do not recall having ever seen another pure brockage of a Vermont landscape, though it may exist.
PCGS# 800826.
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From the Sydney F. Martin Collection. Earlier ex Gary Trudgen; Jeff Rock, January 2012.

Estimate: $4400