1787 Massachusetts Half Cent. Ryder 4-C, W-5940. Rarity-2. MS-62 BN (PCGS).

Choice chocolate brown with satiny luster and pristine surfaces. An ideal quality coin with the bare minimum of the usual peripheral roughness, two ticks under beak, excellent strike with a full central obverse. This piece is perfect for the collector who seeks one nice Massachusetts half cent - the first ever coin with this denomination - for a colonial type set or preface to a collection of federal half cents. A finicky numismatist will not be disappointed with this example.

PCGS# 296. NGC ID: 2B22.

From our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Frederick Taylor Collection, March 1987, lot 2112; our (American Numismatic Rarities') Classics Sale of July 2003, lot 65.